The communication in academic settings is often characterized by speed and immediacy. These two features of natural spoken interaction pose a problem for hard-of-hearing and deaf individuals who are part of these academic communities. For deaf and hard-of-hearing students to be admitted at universities, there should be sign language interpreters available. And relying on the interpreters requires the students to maintain visual contact with the interpreter during the lecture. Which makes it so difficult for the deaf and hard-of-hearing students to take their own notes during the lecture. Instead they rely on the note takers to take notes for them. These note takers are volunteered students who could get busy and not be able to attend with the deaf and hard-of-hearing students that they volunteered to help. Not to mention that most of the universities suffer from the low number of sign language interpreters which caused a lot of hard-of-hearing and deaf students to drop out of school and feel disconnected and underprivileged.

We conducted a literature review on the Transcription in Educational Environment topic. It showed that the speech-to-text transcription is considered an effective supportive method to overcome the absence of the sign language interpreter in classes.