Ashlesha Kadam

Sr. Manager & Product Lead at Amazon

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleshakadam/ leads a global product team at Amazon Music that builds music experiences on Alexa and Amazon Music apps (web, iOS, Android) for millions of customers across 45+ countries. She is also a passionate advocate for women in tech, serving as co-chair for the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) track for Grace Hopper Celebration (biggest tech conference for women in tech with 30K+ participants across 115 countries). In her free time, Ashlesha loves reading fiction, listening to biz-tech podcasts (current favorite - Acquired), hiking in the beautiful Pacific Northwest and spending time with her husband, son and 5yo Golden Retriever.

Overcoming Barriers in Multi-lingual Voice Technology: Top 5 Challenges and Innovative Solutions

By Ashlesha Kadam, Sr. Manager & Product Lead at Amazon on August 10, 2023 in Natural Language Processing
Voice assistants like Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant are household names, but they still don't do well in multilingual settings. This article first provides an overview of how voice assistants work, and then dives into the top 5 challenges for voice assistants when it comes to providing a superior multilingual user experience. It also provides strategies for mitigation of these challenges.
Closing the Gap Between Human Understanding and Machine Learning: Explainable AI as a Solution

By Ashlesha Kadam, Sr. Manager & Product Lead at Amazon on June 21, 2023 in Machine Learning
This article elaborates on the importance of Explainable AI (XAI), what the challenges in building interpretable AI models are, and some practical guidelines for companies to build XAI models.

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