Speech Recognition to Aid Hanyu Pinyin Pronunciation as Part of Mandarin Language Education

Henry Henry (Universitas Internasional Batam)
Eryc Eryc (Universitas Internasional Batam)

Conference on Management, Business, Innovation, Education and Social Sciences (CoMBInES)
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2024): The 4th Conference on Management, Business, Innovation, Education and Social Sc

International language skills are increasingly more relevant in the globalization era. One of these international languages is Mandarin. Speech Recognition can be used to recognize speech to design an application to train mandarin pronunciation skills.This research examines the design and evaluation of an application that uses speech recognition to assist mandarin language students. Waterfall-type SDLC method is used during the development of the application. Testing is done using a black-box testing method. Questionnaire data of 33 users are collected to assess the application. Results showed "Very Effective" in terms of operation, appearance, and content.