{"title":"Improving Students’ Pronunciation in Word Stress through TTS (Text To Speech) Feature: On a Google Translate Application","authors":"Yuliana Sain, Juan Cobar","doi":"10.24256/ideas.v11i1.3321","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This research aimed to find out the improvement of students’ pronunciation in word stress through text-to-speech software at the 11th-grade students of SMAN 1 Kaledupa, in the academic year of 2021/2022. The samples of this study were 22 students, and purposive sampling was applied for this research. This research used a pre-experimental research design where there were three sessions conducted to reach the result of this research. Pre-test and post-test design consisted of 5 meetings, including the treatments. The pre-test in this research is to obtain students' prior knowledge, and the post-test is to measure students’ improvement after the researcher applies or uses the text-to-speech software in the treatment session. The finding of this research showed a significant improvement in students’ pronunciation after the use of text-to-speech software. This was proven by the mean score before treatment was 32.04, and the mean score after treatment has given was 60. The percentage of the improvement was 87.26%. The t-test value (6.106178) was higher than the t-table value (2.07961). H1 is accepted while H0 is rejected, and it can be concluded that there is a significant improvement in students’ pronunciation in word stress.","PeriodicalId":34645,"journal":{"name":"Ideas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Ideas","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.24256/ideas.v11i1.3321","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This research aimed to find out the improvement of students’ pronunciation in word stress through text-to-speech software at the 11th-grade students of SMAN 1 Kaledupa, in the academic year of 2021/2022. The samples of this study were 22 students, and purposive sampling was applied for this research. This research used a pre-experimental research design where there were three sessions conducted to reach the result of this research. Pre-test and post-test design consisted of 5 meetings, including the treatments. The pre-test in this research is to obtain students' prior knowledge, and the post-test is to measure students’ improvement after the researcher applies or uses the text-to-speech software in the treatment session. The finding of this research showed a significant improvement in students’ pronunciation after the use of text-to-speech software. This was proven by the mean score before treatment was 32.04, and the mean score after treatment has given was 60. The percentage of the improvement was 87.26%. The t-test value (6.106178) was higher than the t-table value (2.07961). H1 is accepted while H0 is rejected, and it can be concluded that there is a significant improvement in students’ pronunciation in word stress.