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

 

BASE

 

shows on the handset when there are new answering

 

 

system messages.

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10:01 AM

11/23NEW

If the new message alert tone is turned on (page 22),

MSG#

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the telephone base beeps every 10 seconds when there are

 

HANDSET 1

unreviewed messages.

 

 

 

NOTE: If the answering system has less than five minutes of recording

10:31AM

11/23

 

 

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 VOLUME pq 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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AT&T CL84109 Voice prompts, New message indication, Call screening at the telephone base, Call intercept, Base ringer