Overview / Usage

“Rocket.Chat already provides users with a "total rich communications/collaboration" fabric with anytime/any-medium accessibility - incorporating text, video, audio, conventional land-lines, media-share. And all of this can be done in a totally private and secure manner - when you run your own RC server. This means absolutely no sacrifice of privacy with Facebook, Google, and so on.”

Rocket.Chat is currently available as a Mobile, Web as well as a Desktop application.
But according to Gartner, “Conversational platforms will drive the next big paradigm shift in how humans interact with the digital world.”

And Alexa is at the forefront of this voice tech revolution with over 100 million Alexa enabled devices already in the hands of end users. So why not add the conversational experience to Rocket.Chat and let users interact hands-free in a similar secured manner through voice assistants.

Methodology / Approach

An Alexa skill is being developed for Rocket.Chat with various new features and support for upcoming features along with improved Voice User Interface using the latest SDKs made available, so that it is also easy for newcomers to contribute to the codebase.

The backend logic written in Node.js using Alexa Skills Kit (a developer SDK by Amazon) along with proper documentation.

Technologies Used

Alexa Skills Kit SDK v2 for Node.js
Jargon SDK
AWS - Lambda, Cloudwatch, DynamoDB

Repository

https://github.com/RocketChat/alexa-rocketchat