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Answering system
About the answering system
Voice prompts
The system provides voice prompts to guide you through remote access and
recording outgoing announcements.
New message indication
The message counter on the telephone base flashes and
shows on the handset when there are new answering
system messages.
If the new message alert tone is turned on (page 22),
the telephone base beeps every 10 seconds when there are
unreviewed messages.
NOTE: If the answering system has less than five minutes of recording
time left, it announces the remaining time.
Call screening at the telephone base
If the answering system is on and the telephone base volume is not off (set
to 1 or higher), you hear the announcement and the incoming message when
receiving a call. If you want the telephone base to be silent while recording
messages, make sure you set the telephone base volume to 0.
Call intercept
While screening a call, you can stop recording and speak to the caller.
Press PHONE/FLASH or SPEAKER on a cordless handset.
-OR-
Press SPEAKER or lift the corded handset.
Base ringer
Press VOLUMEpq on the telephone base to adjust the ringer volume when
the telephone is not in use.
You hear a sample of the ringer while adjusting the volume. The telephone
base announces, “Base ringer is off.” when you set the volume to 0.
Temporarily turning off the message alert tone
Pressing any telephone base key temporarily silences the message alert tone.
If you press X DELETE when in idle mode, there is a voice prompt to direct you
to press X DELETE again to delete all old messages, and the message alert
tone is temporarily off.
The message alert tone is reactivated with the next incoming message.
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