1. In a computing device and at a speech recognition problem detection program executed on the computing device, a method for identifying a cross-language speech recognition problem, comprising: receiving a target word in a non-native language from a target application; acquiring a phonetic transcription of the target word comprising one or more target phonetic units; determining that at least one of the target phonetic units is not found in a plurality of native phonetic units associated with a native language; and in response to determining that the at least one target phonetic unit is not found in the plurality of native phonetic units, outputting a warning of the cross-language speech recognition problem for display on a display device, wherein the warning comprises the target word.