# Voice teams: run several callers at once

Source: https://www.nocapbots.com/docs/voice-relay/voice-teams
Last updated: 2026-11-08

> Voice teams let more than one caller run at the same time — say one calling attack and another defense — and each side hears only its own caller. A channel on no team hears every caller, and a caller on no team is heard everywhere. Changes reach a running relay straight away.

## Set up teams

1. **Speaker channels first.** Set up your [speaker bots](https://www.nocapbots.com/docs/voice-relay/speaker-bots.md) first, because teams pick from those channels.
2. **Add a team.** Switch on **Voice teams** and click **Add team**. Name it — Attack — and pick who calls it by role, and its channels.
3. **Repeat.** Do the same for Defense. A channel can only be on one team, and you get up to one team per speaker slot.

## Two rules to remember

- A channel with no team hears every caller.
- A caller with no team is heard by everyone — perfect for your overall commander.

Callers stay together in the shot caller channel, so they can hear each other and coordinate. Callers still need a [voice priority role](https://www.nocapbots.com/docs/voice-relay/configuration.md#voice-priority-filtering) to be relayed at all, and [talk back](https://www.nocapbots.com/docs/voice-relay/talk-back.md) reaches every caller.

> **Note: Changes apply while it runs.** Save a change and a running relay picks it up within a few seconds, callers mid-sentence included — no `/stop` and `/start`. Cross-server relays ignore teams — see [alliances](https://www.nocapbots.com/docs/voice-relay/alliances.md).

## Related guides

- [Talk back: let party leaders reach the caller](https://www.nocapbots.com/docs/voice-relay/talk-back.md): Set up Discord Priority Speaker so party leaders can talk to the caller with a priority push-to-talk key while their normal key stays in their squad.
- [Configure roles, channels and voice priority](https://www.nocapbots.com/docs/voice-relay/configuration.md): The Voice Relay configuration page explained: starter role, shot caller channel, primary and backup caller roles, and the four things /start needs.
- [Alliances: relay across two Discord servers](https://www.nocapbots.com/docs/voice-relay/alliances.md): Link two Discord servers with a single-use invite code so one caller reaches the speaker channels of both. The allied server gets Guild Master free.
- [Voice Relay slash commands](https://www.nocapbots.com/docs/voice-relay/commands.md): Every Callout slash command: /start, /stop, /status, /ping, /start-cross-server and /stop-cross-server, and who can use them.