RCA 25415 Playback and Erasing a Greeting, Recording Incoming Messages, Monitoring Incoming Calls

Answering System Operation

Playback and Erasing a Greeting

1.Press the MENU button while in standby mode.

2.Use the < REVIEW > button to scroll to ANSWERING MACHINE

3.Press the SELECT/SAVE button.

4.Use the < REVIEW > button to scroll to PLAYBACK GREETING.

5.Press the SELECT/SAVE button.

6.The system plays the previously recorded greeting.

7.To erase the recorded greeting, press DELETE button during greeting playback. Press DELETE again to confirm the deletion. Then the de- fault greeting will playback once after deletion.

8.To stop playback, press EXIT.

Recording Incoming Messages

The unit will answer incoming calls or routed calls after X rings (pickup delay set in MENU) and play the outgoing greeting. After hearing the greeting followed by a long beep, the caller can leave a message. The message counter shows new number of messages.

If there is a new message recorded in the unit, the “NEW MESSAGE” indicator will blink.

Note: Your unit will record a message up to the maximum length of time you set as long as the caller continues speaking. To save recording capacity, your unit will automatically stop recording after 7 seconds of silence or if there is a steady dial tone for 7 seconds.

Your unit can record up to 60 minutes of incoming messages. The maximum recording time for each incoming message can be set in MENU.

Monitoring Incoming Calls

Whenever an incoming message is being recorded you can hear it through the speaker if Call Screening is on. To take the call, pick up the handset and the system stops recording. You can interrupt the recording from another extension, if you have Message Interrupt set to ON in the menu.

Memo Recording

1.Press and hold the MEMO button for 2 seconds until you hear a beep.

2.After the beep, speak toward the phone in a normal tone of voice and record your memo.

3.To stop recording, press MEMO button again or press EXIT button. This is considered standard message and will be included in the message counter.

Two-Way Recording

While using the handset or headset, you can record a phone conversation.

1.While on a call using the handset or headset, press MEMO to begin recording the conversation.

2.Press MEMO again or press EXIT button to stop recording. This is considered standard message and will be included in the message counter.

Note: Before start to record the phone conversation, suggest you to tell the party you are speaking to that the conversation will be recorded.

Message Playback

In idle mode, press the PLAY button once. The unit starts to playback the messages.

If the unit has new messages, only the new messages will be played, otherwise all messages will be played. Unit will play messages to the end, then return to standby mode.

During each message playback, you can press REVIEW > button to skip the current message OR press < REVIEW button to replay the mes- sage playing.

If there are no messages, the unit will announce “You have NO messages”.

Deleting Messages

To delete messages:

1.Press the PLAY button while in idle mode.

2.Use the < REVIEW > button to scroll to the message you want to delete.

3.Press DELETE button and MESSAGE XX DELETE? shows in the display.

4.Press the DELETE button again to confirm.

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