Answering System Settings; Announcement - AT&T EL52100 User Manual

Telephone settings

Answering system settings

Use the answering system menu of a system handset to turn on or off the
answering system, record your announcement, activate the call screening,
change the number of rings, set the remote access code and activate the
message alert tone.

Announcement

The announcement is the greeting callers hear when calls are answered by
the answering system.
The telephone has a default announcement, "Hello. Please leave a message
after the tone." You can use this announcement, or record your own.
You can record an announcement up to 90 seconds. The system does not
record any announcement shorter than two seconds.
To play the current announcement:
Press MENU/
1.
2. Press or
DIR
/SELECT.
press
MENU
3. Press /SELECT to choose >ANNOUNCEMENT. The
MENU
system announces, "To play, press 2. To record, press 7."
4. Press 2 to play the current announcement from the
speakerphone.
• Press
DIR
to decrease the message playback volume.
SPEAKER to switch between speakerphone
• Press
and handset earpiece.
To record a new announcement:
1. Follow steps 1 and 2 in To play the current announcement on this page.
/SELECT to choose >ANNOUNCEMENT. The
2. Press
MENU
system announces, "To play, press 2. To record, press 7."
Press 7. The system announces, "Record after the tone,
3.
press 5 when you are done."
4. Face the handset and speak towards the microphone to
record your announcement.
5. Press 5 when you finish the recording. The handset plays back the
recorded announcement.
NOTE: If the answering system memory is full, when you press 7 in step 3, the answering
system announces, "Memory is full." You must delete some messages before you can record a
new announcement. Refer to Message playback on page 44.
when in idle mode.
SELECT
to scroll to >ANSWERING SYS, then
CID
/VOLUME to increase or press /VOLUME
CID
15
>ANNOUNCEMENT
DELETE ALL OLD
2-PLAY 3-DELETE
5-STOP 7-RECORD
RECORD ANNC...
5-STOP