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 20:
20. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving the audio input comprises receiving the audio input concurrently from a plurality of microphones, the method further comprising: the hearing prosthesis determining based at least in part on audio input received by the plurality of microphones whether the audio input represents speech by the recipient or rather represents speech by a person other than the recipient.