Patent ID: 8229148

Claim:
A hearing instrument, comprising: a first microphone adapted to convert ambient sound to an ambient electric sound signal; a signal processor adapted to generate a processed sound signal based on said ambient electric sound signal; a controllable output stage adapted to generate a driving signal based on said processed sound signal and in accordance with a control signal; a speaker unit adapted to generate a sound in the ear canal of the user based on said driving signal; a second microphone located in the ear canal and adapted to convert said sound in the ear canal to a monitor sound signal; and a linearization stage adapted to compare said processed sound signal and said monitor sound signal and to generate said control signal based thereon, thereby providing an adaptive linearization of the speaker unit, characterized in that the signal processor includes a voice detection element adapted to detect the own voice of the user, and that the linearization stage is adapted to selectively disable the adaptive linearization in dependence on the voice detection element detecting the own voice of the user.