Research and Development in Education (RaDEn)
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2024): July

Analyzing the differences: U-dictionary and google translate's English-to-Indonesian speech translation

Suhartawan Budianto (English Literature Department, Faculty of Letters, Dr. Soetomo University, Indonesia)
Devito Andharu (English Literature Department, Faculty of Letters, Dr. Soetomo University, Indonesia)
Ratna Kartini (English Literature Department, Faculty of Letters, Dr. Soetomo University, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
05 Mar 2024

Abstract

This study investigated the use of U-Dictionary and Google Translate in translating English Speech into the Indonesian language. This study aimed to test whether U-Dictionary outperforms Google Translate in translating English Speech into Indonesian. The true experimental design was applied to examine the result of the translation from U-Dictionary and Google Translate. Two raters assessed the translation result from U-Dictionary and Google Translate using a translation scoring rubric (In the "Equal Variances Assumed" section, the two-tailed significance value is 0.000, which is less than 0.05). The result showed that U-Dictionary didn’t outperform Google Translate in translating English Speech into Indonesian. On the contrary, Google Translate outperformed U-Dictionary Google Translate in translating English Speech into the Indonesian language. Here, the source language is English and the target language is Indonesian language. The result strongly suggests that Google Translate app is more effective than U-Dictionary in translating English to Indonesian in relating topics such as biography, daily life, and culture of certain community. The further research is expected to investigate the efficacy of Google Translate towards U-Dictionary in different scope of discourse like economic, politic, law, and etc. Moreover, the future research may compare among Machine Translation (MT) or among translation apps.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

raden

Publisher

Subject

Education

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Research and Development in Education is a scientific journal that aims at publishing research results and review in Research and Development of education in various science fields. Research and Development results can be in classroom-oriented, product-oriented, and system-oriented perspectives ...