Patent Document ID: 9814879
Application ID: 13892747

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving audio input into a hearing prosthesis that is operable to stimulate a physiological system of a recipient in accordance with the received audio input, the received audio input representing an audio environment of the recipient; determining by the hearing prosthesis, based on the received audio input, linguistic characteristics of the audio environment, wherein the linguistic characteristics comprise (i) a measure of quantity of speech by the recipient and (ii) a measure of quantity of speech by one or more people other than the recipient; generating by the hearing prosthesis data representing the determined linguistic characteristics; and outputting the data from the hearing prosthesis.

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Claim 18:
18. The method of claim 1 , wherein the linguistic characteristics further comprise at least one characteristic selected from the group consisting of: a measure of proportion of time spent by the recipient speaking, a measure of proportion of time spent by the recipient receiving speech from others, a measure of quantity of words spoken by the recipient, a measure of quantity of sentences spoken by the recipient, a measure of quantity of words spoken by one or more people other than the recipient, a measure of quantity of sentences spoken by one or more people other than the recipient, a measure of quantity of conversational turns by the recipient, a measure of quantity of conversations initiated by the recipient, a measure of quantity of phonetic features produced by the recipient, a measure of length of utterances by the recipient or by others, and a measure of speech quality.