Abstract: A method and device are provided for multilingual speech recognition. In one example, a speech recognition method includes receiving a multilingual input speech signal, extracting a first phoneme sequence from the multilingual input speech signal, determining a first language likelihood score indicating a likelihood that the first phoneme sequence is identified in a first language dictionary, determining a second language likelihood score indicating a likelihood that the first phoneme sequence is identified in a second language dictionary, generating a query result responsive to the first and second language likelihood scores, and outputting the query result.