COMPENSATING HIDDEN HEARING LOSSES BY ATTENUATING HIGH SOUND PRESSURE LEVELS

摘要

A method for compensating hearing deficiencies with a hearing device (10) comprises: receiving a sound signal (42); attenuating an output sound pressure level (30) of the sound signal (42) dependent on an input sound pressure level (32) of the sound signal (42); and outputting the attenuated sound signal (44) with a loudspeaker (22) of the hearing device (10). The output sound pressure level (30) is attenuated, when the input sound pressure level (32) is above an upper speech recognition kneepoint (K) of the user, which upper speech recognition kneepoint (K) is stored in the hearing device (10) and which has been selected dependent on a sound pressure level dependent speech recognition ability (36) of the user.