HEARING ASSISTANCE DEVICE

Provided is a user-worn hearing assistance device that can suppress speech made by a user that is wearing the hearing assistance device. When a user wears the hearing assistance device 1, a pair of microphones L, R separately arranged on the respective sides of the head of the user fall into position, and a pair of speakers are positioned in the ears of or in the vicinity of the ears of the user. The device is also provided with a noise-canceling part 96 which subtracts, from an input signal from at least one of the microphones L, R, a signal for relatively emphasizing sound originating from a sound source located at the mouth of the user, processed by a mouth directivity acoustic processing unit 93. 本发明提供一种听觉辅助器件，由用户佩戴，能够抑制佩戴有听觉辅助器件的用户发出的声音。听觉辅助器件1中，通过用户佩戴，分开配置的一对传声器L、R位于头部两侧，且一对扬声器位于用户的两耳或其近旁。而且，包括噪音消除部96，从传声器L、R的至少一者的输入信号中，减去相对强调嘴指向性音响处理部93所处理的位于用户的嘴的声源的声音的信号。