Voice Control Application for English Lesson Access

Abstract

The communication in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) promotes the importance of and necessity of the international language, English. Fluent in English communication yields tremendous communication advantages or otherwise, drastic disadvantages. With this necessity, the English lesson access tools would be supremely beneficial as the practical solution. This article proposes the concept in developing voice control based application for the English lesson access. The application of speech recognition technologies promotes the verbal-to-vocab translation for command. This application requires input of command to access English lesson via either a speech recognition device or a keyboard. The related English lessons will be displayed for user’s selection. After the selection, the system will display an English dialogue of the lessons and their translation in audio and text. The translation shows the meaning of words, type of vocabulary (noun, verb, preposition, adjective, adverb, or etc.), synonyms and antonyms to users. The system has been developed and evaluated. The 5-Likert scale questionnaire was used as user satisfaction evaluation. Sample groups are the 34 students with major of study in computer science, RMUTT and the six subject matter experts. The result has been discovered that the system has yielded positive effects 85% in terms of the users’ satisfaction.