• Speech recognition needs to happen on the device so as to not depend on network
availability.
This thesis challenges included the integration and selection of multiple
components to build a hearing augmented reality application using the iOS platform. The
APIs and libraries used as part of this research are listed in Table 5.1 along with
comments to guide readers who wish to know more about the reasons for using these
libraries. Readers should note that the Google Translate API while a good choice for this
thesis work will no longer be available to use as a free open source library starting
December 1st
, 2011.