Patent Document ID: 8934652
Application ID: 13324232

Base Claim:
1. A method for ability enhancement, the method comprising: receiving data representing a speech signal obtained at a hearing device associated with a user, the speech signal representing an utterance of a speaker who is distinct from the user; identifying the speaker based on the data representing the speech signal, wherein identifying the speaker includes: performing speech recognition to convert the received data into text data; and identifying the speaker based on the text data, by finding a document that references the speaker and that includes one or more words of the text data, thereby inferring that the speaker is the author of the document, a recipient of the document, or a person described in the document; determining speaker-related information associated with the identified speaker; and visually presenting the speaker-related information to the user.

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Claim 21:
21. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: retrieving information items that reference the text data; and informing the user of the retrieved information items.