This artical is motivateid by Phone Transcriptions or Google Translate Sound in mproving Students’ Pronountions: Students’ Perceptions. Therefore, to improve students’ pronunciation skills, the teacher suggests to students use Phone Transcriptions or Google Translate Sound as media to learn pronunciation independently. The aim of this research is to describe the students’ perceptions of using Phone Transcriptions or Google Translate Sound and to describe the obstacles do students find using Phone Transcriptions or Google Translate Sound as media in learning pronunciation. This research used qualitative method in specific descriptive qualitative methods. The participant of this research were 36 students of English Department. They are students from TBI1 in state Islamic University of North Sumatra. The result of this research shows the students’ perception on using Phone Transcriptions or Google Translate Sound as media in learning pronunciation was positive, because students can learn practically and independently.

This study aims to inform that an understanding of phonetic symbols is needed to assist in pronouncing. This study uses library research, this study uses student observation by giving students a few words or sentences and then students read it. The result, students of the Department of English at Negeri Padang University in 2015 were said to have good skills in pronouncing the vowels of English words. The average is 66.1. There are 9 excellent students here.

This articlei is motivateid by thei importancei of voweil souinds to suipport thei ability to reiad and writei in Einglish. Voweil souinds ability is an ability that is oftein oveirlookeid whein compareid to speiak and conveirsation compreiheinsion, althouigh theirei is a lot of liteiratuirei which stateis that reiseiarcheirs and eiduicators agreiei that souinds skills arei important to bei tauight. Uintil now, theirei arei still many stuideints in geineiral who do not uindeirstand voweil souinds . Theireiforei, this articlei discuisseis speilling and speilling variants. Writing this articlei aims: 1) to know thei conceipt of voweil souinds 2) to find ouit voweil souinds 3) To find ouit thei correict voweil souinds misconceiptions. Thei meithod uiseid is a meithod by seiarching baseid on eixisting liteiratuirei and articleis. Thei data colleiction teichniquiei is baseid on liteiratuirei and articleis reilateid to voweil souinds. Thei reisuilt of this articlei is that speilling has a veiry big fuinction in writing, thei first impreission that thei reiadeir geits is thei voweil of souinds from an articlei beiforei hei uindeirstands thei meissagei thei auithor wants to conveiy. An articlei with a varieity of words which is muich morei inteireisting to reiad than an articlei that uiseis thei samei words oveir and oveir again. Many stuideints feieil that souinds with thei correict voweil souinds is veiry difficuilt to do.

English is a native-speaking language hundreds of millions of the world's population consisting of Americans, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and of course·only the British themselves. This fact allows the emergence of several English variants or varieties; Among another emergence of British English and American English.  In the world of education, English as a language foreigners in Indonesia, the second variant has not received attention. Most English teaching institutions without be the choice of certain English variants. On Basically, the official provisions regarding this matter are not yet there is. However, there are variants of British English and American English can bring teacher doubts in dealing with abnormalities, vowel, vocabulary, or pronunciation the language. This is one of the considerations for the need to know English variants for prospective teachers and students English teacher, especially when the American influence is growing.

Vowels in English are pronounced with the mouth open, they can be sung. Also, vowels in English can be long vowels and short short vowels. The number of short vowels is seven long: five diphthongs and eight diphthongs. Diphthongs: Combinations of two vowels in a syllable. In English it is very important to respect the abbreviations and the length of the vowels, as the length of a sound can depend on the meaning of the word. For example: boat - sheep The first word of the sound i is short, and in the second vowel combination it is a sound that I owe only i. Translation of the first word - ship and the second - sheep. English short vowel – truncated stressed vowel. Vowel length in English or monophthong. They recite a fixed articulation. The first diphthong resonates, creating a surprising syllable. And the second - just a quick point. English has short and long vowels. There are 6 short vowels, some say 7, including the sound schwa [ə], as in "go, still, cinema, etc.". The six short vowels are [ʌ], [æ], [e], [ɪ ] , [ɒ] and [ʊ] with examples /cup/, /black/, /yes/, /sit/, /rock/ and /pull/ each has 5, namely H. [u:], [i: ] , [ɑ:], [ɔ:] and [ɜ:] with examples of each word: /food/, /look/, /dark/,/call/ and /wallet.