A HEARING AID DETERMINING TALKERS OF INTEREST

A hearing aid adapted for being located at or in an ear of a hearing aid user, or for being fully or partially implanted in the head of a hearing aid user is provided. The hearing aid comprising an input unit for providing at least one electric input signal representing sound in an environment of the hearing aid user, said electric input signal comprising no speech signal, or one or more speech signals from one or more speech sound sources and additional signal components, termed noise signal, from one or more other sound sources, an own voice detector (OVD), a voice activity detector (VAD), a talker extraction unit configured to determine and/or receive the one or more speech signals as separated one or more speech signals from speech sound sources other than the hearing aid user and to detect the speech signal originating from the voice of the hearing aid user, and where the talker extraction unit is further configured to provide separate signals, each comprising, or indicating the presence of, one of said one or more speech signals, and a noise reduction system configured to determine a speech overlap and/or gap between said speech signal originating from the voice of the hearing aid user and each of said separated one or more speech signals. A binaural hearing system and a method of operating a hearing aid is furthermore provided.