Methods and devices for occluding an ear canal having a predetermined filter characteristic

1. An earpiece sealing element, comprising:

an insertion element;

a first occlusion section;

a second occlusion section; and

a channel connecting the first occlusion section with the second occlusion section, wherein the channel is configured to leak medium between the first occlusion section and the second occlusion section, wherein a leak value is chosen so that the first occlusion section is configured so that a first frequency bandwidth has a first attenuation value that is a flat attenuation throughout the first bandwidth within a first standard deviation, and wherein the first occlusion section and second occlusion section are connected to the insertion element.

2. An earpiece comprising:

an earpiece sealing element according to claim 1 ;

a microphone configured to measure an acoustic environment, creating a sound signal;

a speaker;

a user interface;

a memory that stores instructions; and

a logic circuit that executes the instructions to perform operations, the operations comprising:

detecting a monitored sound in the sound signal; and

creating a notification value when the monitored sound is detected.

3. The earpiece according to claim 2 , further including the operations of:

detecting a user's voice in the sound signal, where the monitored sound is the user's voice;

extracting an audio signal of the user's voice;

analyzing the audio signal to determine a voice command; and

initiating a response to the voice command.

4. The earpiece according to claim 3 , where the voice command is to create an audio content wish list.

5. The earpiece according to claim 4 , where the response is at least one of the following actions, purchase a song in the audio content list, delete a song from the audio content list, skip to the next song in the audio content list, add a song to the audio content list, and delete the audio content list.

6. The earpiece according to claim 3 , where the voice command is to search the internet.

7. The earpiece according to claim 3 , where the voice command is to play audio from the internet.

8. The earpiece according to claim 3 , where the voice command is to scan the internet for an audio.

9. The earpiece according to claim 3 , where the voice command is to play audio from a radio station.

10. The earpiece according to claim 2 , further including the operations of:

sending a sealing signal to the speaker;

measuring the sound signal while the sealing signal is being played by the speaker; and

sending a sealing notification to the user.

11. The earpiece of claim 10 , where the microphone is an ear canal microphone that measures an ear canal acoustic environment.

12. The earpiece of claim 10 , where the microphone is an ambient sound microphone that measures an ambient acoustic environment.

13. The earpiece according to claim 10 where the sealing notification is a visual notification of the earpiece's seal quality.

14. The earpiece according to claim 2 , where the microphone is an ear canal microphone that measures an ear canal acoustic environment creating an internal sound signal.

15. The earpiece according to claim 14 , further comprising:

an ambient sound microphone.

16. The earpiece according to claim 14 , further including the operations of:

calculating the sound pressure level dosage of a user using the internal sound signal.

17. The earpiece according to claim 16 , further including the operations of:

notifying the user when the dosage exceeds a threshold.