ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,756, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Cross-lingual speech recognition" was invented by Petar Aleksic (Jersey City, N.J.) and Pedro J. Moreno Mengibar (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for cross-lingual speech recognition are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of determining a context of a second computing device. The actions further include identifying, by a first computing device, an additional pronunciation for a term of multiple terms. The actions further incl...