---
title: "Manage voice channels and who is in them"
description: "Move people between voice channels, set a channel's status, disconnect someone, and run stages, without dragging names around."
canonical_url: "https://www.bondbot.gg/use-cases/voice-channel-management"
last_updated: "2026-10-05"
---

# Manage voice channels and who is in them

Move people between voice channels, set a channel's status, disconnect someone, and run stages, without dragging names around.

Categories: Voice, Channels & categories.

## The request

"@Bond Move everyone in Lobby into the Event channel and set its status to Live now"

## What Bond does after the first message

- List who is currently connected to voice, grouped by voice or stage channel, with each member's audio state (self and server mute, deafen, streaming, video). (`list_voice_members`)
- Move a member from the voice channel they are in into another one. (`move_member_voice`)
- Disconnect a member from the voice channel they are in. (`disconnect_member_voice`)
- List the Discord voice regions available to this server, with each region's ID, display name, and whether it is optimal, custom or deprecated. (`list_voice_regions`)
- Set the short status text displayed for a voice channel. (`set_voice_channel_status`)
- Start a stage instance: the live audio session in a stage channel where speakers present to an audience and members can request to speak. (`create_stage_instance`)
- List all channels in the Discord server: names, types (text, voice, category, forum, media, stage, announcement), IDs and parent category. (`list_channels`)
- Create one text, voice, forum, media, stage, or announcement channel, optionally inside a category, whose permissions it adopts. (`create_channel`)
- Delete a channel and every message in it. (`delete_channel`)
- Create up to 20 channels of mixed types, such as text, voice, forum and stage, across existing categories in one step. (`bulk_create_channels`)
- Edit a channel's settings: name, topic, slowmode, NSFW status, position, voice region or video quality, and thread defaults. (`edit_channel`)
- Set the slowmode (rate limit) on a text channel: members must wait this many seconds between messages. (`set_slowmode`)

See also: [all voice tools](https://www.bondbot.gg/tools/voice), [all channels & categories tools](https://www.bondbot.gg/tools/channels).

## More in set up and restructure

- [Set up a whole Discord server](https://www.bondbot.gg/use-cases/set-up-a-server): Describe the server you want and Bond builds the categories, channels, roles and permissions to match, in one pass.
- [Reorganise channels and categories](https://www.bondbot.gg/use-cases/organise-channels): Rename, regroup and reorder a messy channel list in one pass, including moving whole sets of channels under new categories.
- [Make a private or staff-only channel](https://www.bondbot.gg/use-cases/private-channels): Create a channel only certain roles can see, without opening the permissions tab and toggling twenty overwrites by hand.
- [Set up an announcement channel](https://www.bondbot.gg/use-cases/announcement-channel): A channel only staff can post in, published so other servers can follow it, with the posts pinned where people will find them.
- [Audit your server's roles and settings](https://www.bondbot.gg/use-cases/audit-server-settings): Ask who can do what and what changed recently, instead of clicking through every role and reading the audit log yourself.