Systems and methods for facilitating user control of ambient sound attenuation during an audio streaming session

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PATENT NO 11863939
APP PUB NO 20230224648A1
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17573918

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An exemplary system includes a memory storing instructions and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and configured to execute the instructions to determine that an audio streaming session is to be initiated in which an audio signal is streamed to a hearing device, provide, based on the determining that the audio streaming session is to be initiated, an option for a user to select an ambient sound attenuation setting for use by the hearing device during the audio streaming session, detect a selection by the user of the option; and direct, based on the user selecting the option, the hearing device to initiate the audio streaming session and attenuate, in accordance with the ambient sound attenuation setting, ambient sound during the audio streaming session.

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SONOVA AGSWISS SHI TAIFA STAFA ZURICH

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Kuipers, Erwin Wolfhausen, CH 17 41
Riepenhoff, Matthias Hombrechtikon, CH 19 114

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