Improving Automatic Speech Recognition of Multilingual Named Entities

A system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one memory storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to:
• access a list comprising a plurality of named entities, wherein each named entity is represented in a native language and a foreign language;
• compare a first named entity represented in the native language with the first named entity represented in the foreign language;
• identify one or more words that appear in both the first named entity represented in the native language and the first named entity represented in the foreign language, wherein the one or more words are identified as one or more foreign words;
• and
• apply a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion to the one or more foreign words, resulting in a native pronunciation for each of the one or more foreign words.

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having instructions stored thereon, which when performed, cause a computing device to perform:

• accessing a list comprising a plurality of named entities, wherein each named entity is represented in a native language and a foreign language;
• comparing a first named entity represented in the native language with the first named entity represented in the foreign language;
• identifying one or more words that appear in both the first named entity represented in the native language and the first named entity represented in the foreign language, wherein the one or more words are identified as one or more foreign words;
• and
• applying a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion to the one or more foreign words, resulting in a native pronunciation for each of the one or more foreign words.