Aparna Khare

Aparna Khare is a Speech Scientist at Amazon working on speech and language technologies. She was part of the science team that launched the Amazon Echo, a first of its kind speaker that uses far field speech recognition. Prior to that, she was a software engineer at Cisco where she worked on developing a speaker identification system. At TeachAids, she manages several programming elements and supported in the development and launch of 14 animated software versions. She is an active member of the Stanford chapter of Asha for Education, a nonprofit focused on bringing about socio-economic change in India by means of education. She holds an M.S. from Texas A&M University.