All you need to know about Rohit Prasad, the man behind Alexa of Amazon

Amazon Alexa has become very popular among households to make life easier for everyone. The concept works on voice recognition amassed recognition in no time and has become popular among consumers. But did you know Alexa, whose phenomena around the world have an Indian connotation?

Rohit Prasad, Jharkhand's Ranchi Man is the brains behind Alexa's Amazon.

Prasad, currently works as a vice president and is the chief scientist of Alexa Artificial Intelligence at Amazon. Another success that he recorded under his name is that he came in 15th place on the list of 100 people in technology, business and the media that counted in 2017.

Now, Located abroad, Rohit Prasad has completed his schooling school at Ranchi. He then studied engineering at the Birla Institute of Technology (BIT) Mesra, a village near the capital of Jharkhand.

According to Prasad's LinkedIn profile, he joined Raytheon BBN Technologies in July 1999 as a researcher. Within the same company, he became Deputy Director and Senior Manager of the Business Unit Word, Language and Multimedia.

Rohit Prasad joined Amazon in 2013. He worked with the e-commerce giant for three years as the director of machine learning, Alexa, and was raised in 2016 as vice president and scientific leader of artificial Alexa Intelligence.

Earlier this year, Amazon launched Alexa for Hospitality, developed specifically to act as a virtual concierge. With Amazon Echo, you can ask Alexa for information such as opening hours of the hotel pool or the location of the fitness center and request a room service or a cleaning service.

The device can also be used to control room lights, temperature, blinds and TV. Aside from the hotel experience, guests can call Alexa for hospitality to check waiting times at airports, play games, or play white noise for help them to fall asleep.

Similarly, Amazon is working on a feature that will allow Amazon customers to temporarily sign in to their account and play music from their personal playlist, be it Amazon Music, Spotify or Pandora, or from Amazon. listen to their audio books. Marriott International will be the first to introduce Alexa in its hotel rooms, in some of its portfolio hotels, including the Marriott, Westin, St. Regis, Aloft and Autograph Collection, starting this summer.