Elsa Speak App: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for Supplementing English Pronunciation Skills

Abstract

Nowadays, artificial intelligence (AI) became a special concern in language teaching for the reason that it can assist and enhance language learning for all levels of education. Again, it had beneficial roles for supplementing language teaching like ELSA Speak App one of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) used for teaching pronunciation. It studied how students heard, voiced, uttered, vocalized, and asserted the English words in the oral language, but the students often pronounced incorrect words with the result that the uttered words had faulty meaning. This study aimed to carry out English Language Speech Assistant (ELSA) Speak App to improve English language pronunciation skills to higher education learners that were the English Department Students of Nahdlatul Ulama University of Yogyakarta (UNU). The data were collected using a test of pronunciation and interview. The researcher also taught in the classroom. The results showed that ELSA Speak can increase the students’ pronunciation skills. It can be seen from the average scores obtained from the teaching cycles from two to four in grade. Clearly, ELSA Speak helped the students pronounce diverse words more easily and comprehensively. Also, the available features offered by this app like instant feedback enabled the students to pronounce precisely. In conclusion, ELSA Speak can improve the students’ pronunciation skills well and effectively. Indeed, it can motivate the students to engage in learning to pronounce.

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“…Thứ ba, kết quả thống kê suy luận cho thấy có mối tương quan giữa các nhân tố chính của việc sử dụng thiết bị di động để học tiếng Anh và số lần đăng nhập, số bài luyện, câu hỏi hoàn thành, thời gian học và kết quả học. Mặc dù dữ liệu trong nghiên cứu này chưa đủ lớn để có thể khẳng định mối quan hệ xuôi chiều giữa các nhân tố trên, nhưng kết quả này giống với phát hiện của Kholis (2021) về mối tương quan giữa hành vi sử dụng Elsa Speak (một ứng dụng luyện nói) và kết quả (score) thu được sau một thời gian nhất định, và nghiên cứu của Sutami (2021) về hiệu quả của việc khai thác ứng dụng ORAI để luyện nói tiếng Anh. Kết quả này cũng tương đồng với phát hiện trong nghiên cứu của Daly (2022) cho thấy tổng thời gian học (total time using app) có mối tương quan dương với điểm làm bài kiểm tra (test score).…”