A modern TeamSpeak alternative for communities that want clean, private voice chat.
Self-hosted. Encrypted transport. A voice-first Discord alternative.
Self-hosted
Deploy Shmery on your own infrastructure. Voice traffic stays on infrastructure you control, without a mandatory hosted relay and without terms that can suddenly take your server away.
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Voice rooms
Speaking activity, mute state and channel presence are visible at a glance. You always know who's talking, who's muted and who is in the room.
Privacy
Voice traffic is encrypted in transit, and the voice server runs on infrastructure your community controls. Shmery keeps the voice path simple instead of forcing a hosted platform into the middle of every room.
Encrypted voice
Voice packets are protected in transit. Self-hosted servers keep the voice path on infrastructure you control. No ads. No analytics scripts.Not everything. These are the jobs Shmery is built to do well for voice-first communities.
| Focus | What it means in practice |
|---|---|
| Self-hosted voice | Run the voice server on your own VPS, dedicated machine or home lab. |
| Voice and text together | Keep voice channels and persistent text channels on the same self-hosted server. |
| Guest or account-gated access | Let people join without a Shmery account, or require registered accounts when identity matters. |
| Roles and channel permissions | Manage server roles, channel roles and per-channel overrides without rebuilding the server. |
| Local noise reduction | Reduce noise on the client without routing raw microphone audio through our cloud. |
| Server aliases | Share a clean shmery.com/srv/<alias> link instead of a raw address when you want to. |
Alternatives
Shmery is a self-hosted voice chat platform for communities that want the feel of TeamSpeak, a cleaner modern UI and fewer tradeoffs than Discord for voice-first use cases. It is built for guilds, gaming groups, private communities and teams that want control over their infrastructure.
Shmery keeps the voice-first philosophy and self-hosting model people expect from TeamSpeak, but updates the client, permissions, identity and account flow for a more modern stack.
Shmery is also a privacy-first Discord alternative when your community mostly needs reliable voice chat, server control, aliases, moderation and clean communication without ads or social clutter.
Encrypted voice transport, local noise reduction and self-hosted servers make Shmery a strong fit for communities that care about private, high-quality voice communication.
Yes. Shmery is designed for communities that want cleaner voice chat, less platform lock-in and stronger privacy than a typical Discord setup.
Yes. It keeps the self-hosted voice DNA of TeamSpeak while adding a more modern client, stronger account flow, better branding and current UX expectations.
Yes. You can run Shmery on your own VPS, dedicated server or home lab and keep ownership of the infrastructure your community depends on.
Not by default. Servers can allow guest-style access, while owners can also require registered Shmery accounts when they want stronger identity and social features.
Free to use. Guest access works unless a server owner requires Shmery accounts.
Checking this Shmery link against the account backend.