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
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the telephone base beeps every 10 seconds when there are |
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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.
•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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