Abstract
Smart universities and smart learning environments can benefit regular students and special students, i.e. students with various types of disabilities including physical, visual, hearing, speech, cognitive and other types of impairments. This paper presents the outcomes of an ongoing research project aimed at systematic identification, analysis, and testing of available open source and commercial software systems that could significantly benefit college students with hearing impairments in highly technological learning environments—smart universities. We analyzed various assistive technologies available for students with hearing impairments, including Dragon, Windows Speech Recognition, Automatic captions in Google Slides, CADET, MovieCaptioner, Dragon Naturally Speaking, Dragon Dictate, Sennheiser MobileConnect, SoundAMP R, Office 365 Dictate, Apple/Mac Voice Recognition, Cochlear implants, C-Print, ViaVoice, Picture Boards, Digitized Speech AAC Devices, Infrared, Inductive Loop Technology, Dragon Dictation App, and other systems. Based on a careful analysis of open source and commercially available products for students with hearing impairments we identified the top software systems that we recommend for implementation and active use in smart universities.
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