AT&T CL82450 user manual Message capacity, Voice prompts, Call screening at the telephone base

Answering system

About the answering system

Message capacity

The answering system can record up to 99 messages, depending on the length of each message. Individual messages can be up to four minutes, and the maximum recording time is approximately 14 minutes. The actual recording time depends on individual message characteristics. Messages remain available for replay until you delete them.

When there are new messages (including memos) on the answering system, the number of messages stored flashes in the message counter.

If the answering system has three minutes of recording time left, it announces, “Less than three minutes to record,” before message playback at the handset or the telephone base. The handset screen displays Less than 3 minutes to record before message playback. If the memory is low, Rec mem low displays on the handset screen in idle mode. When you turn on the answering system at the telephone base, it announces, “Calls will be answered. Less than three minutes to record.”

If the memory is full, the answering system announces, “Memory is full,” before message playback. The handset screen displays Rec mem full in idle mode and the number of messages and F flashe alternately in the message counter at the telephone base. You cannot turn on the answering system and record new messages until old ones have been deleted. Memory full displays if you want to turn on the answering system on the handset but there is no memory.

Voice prompts

The system provides voice prompts to guide you through the setup procedures at the telephone base, message playback, remote access and recording outgoing announcements.

Call screening at the telephone base

If the answering system and call screening are on, the announcement and the incoming message broadcast at the telephone base when a call arrives.

You can turn call screening on or off using the handset (see page 18). When call screening is off, you can temporarily turn on call screening by pressing pVOLUME on the telephone base. Call screening will be off for the next incoming call.

If call screening is on and you want to silence the telephone base while it is recording messages, press qVOLUME on the telephone base until the displays shows 1. This volume setting is shared with message playback, so when you play messages at volume 1, they play at a very low volume. If you increase the volume for playback, the next incoming message plays at the same volume level.

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