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I&B Min launches AIR streaming services on Amazon Alexa Smart Speakers

I&B Min launches AIR streaming services on Amazon Alexa Smart Speakers

New Delhi, Sep 28 (UNI) Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Information and Broadcasting and Sports and Youth Affairs Col (Retd) Rajyavardhan Rathore on Friday launched All India Radio's Streaming Services on Amazon's Alexa Smart Speakers, here.
Launching the services at a function attended by Chairman of Prasar Bharati A Surya Prakash, CEO of Prasar Bharati Shashi Shekhar Vempati, Principal of Tech Business Development in Amazon Alexa (Asia) Rajiv Sawhney and other senior officials of the Ministry, Col Rathore said that Services like Amazon Alexa have eased the life of a person.
He said that launching of All India Radio’s Streaming Services on Amazon’s Alexa platform would be a synergy of Old and Modern forms of Communication.
He also said that this initiative will benefit the Indian diaspora around the world.
‘’Now anyone from any part of the world can listen to the programmes in All India Radio,’’he said.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr Prakash informed that playlist of archival assets of All India Radio will also be made available in Alexa platform in the future.
Mr Sawhney said that voice is the future of communication with the devices around us. Voice is everywhere and already 390 million people around the world are using voice based communication and this would almost triple to 1.83 billion people in the next three years.
Vividh Bharati and 14 other regional language streaming services of All India Radio will be streamed on Amazon Alexa.
Archival assets of All India Radio will be made available in Amazon Alexa in the near future.
The AIR will get an additional platform for global and domestic audiences and cover all the shadow areas of terrestrial broadcasting in the regional, headquarters and metro cities in particular. Alexa would also supplement the AIR's website and App, Mr Sawhney added.
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