Telephone with sound customizable to audiological profile of user

摘要

There is disclosed a telephone device (20) including a tone generator for generating a sequence of tone signals over a predetermined frequency range. A speaker (38) converts the tone signals to audio signals. A feedback mechanism (50 or 60) is provided for a listener hearing the audio signals to indicate audiological sensing of the audio signals. The listener responses are stored in a memory (44) as an audiological profile. A processor (44) converts the audiological profile to a set of tap weights also for storage in the memory. When an incoming call is present, a filter receives the set of tap weights and the incoming call signal. The filter provides an output that is a filtered version of the incoming signal to drive the speaker. The telephone device (20) may be a wire-line, cellular, cordless, internet, PC-based telephone, telephone handset or telephone answering device.