Dial Tones; Using The Handset, Speaker, And Microphone - Avaya PARTNER ACS Installation And Use Manual

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Dial Tones

There are two different dial tones when you call with a system telephone:
Outside dial tone is generated by your local telephone company to indicate that you are
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connected with an outside line.
Intercom dial tone is generated by the system to indicate that you are connected with an
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inside line. You hear this dial tone when you are making an inside or intercom call.
To hear the difference between the two types of dial tones on a system telephone, press a line or
pool button. The dial tone you hear is an outside dial tone. To hear an intercom dial tone, press
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.

Using the Handset, Speaker, and Microphone

Every PARTNER and MLS system telephone (except the MLS-6 telephone) has a speaker and a
microphone, which you can turn on by pressing
on and off by pressing
If you prefer to dial and conduct calls without lifting the handset, you can use the speaker and the
microphone instead. Use these techniques to make calls with the speaker and the microphone:
To make a call without lifting the handset, press
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(you hear the call ringing). When the other party answers, you can talk without lifting the
handset.
If you are already on a call, you can switch from the handset to the speaker and microphone by
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pressing
microphone and want to switch to the handset, lift the handset (the speaker and microphone
turn off).
To turn off the microphone when you are using the speaker, press
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voice so the other party cannot hear you.
Hands-Free Answer on Intercom (HFAI)
When you receive a voice-signaled intercom call, your telephone beeps once to indicate that your
speaker has been turned on automatically, and you hear the caller's voice over your telephone's
speaker. If you leave your microphone on all the time, you can start talking when you hear the
caller, without lifting the handset. This feature is called Hands-Free Answer on Intercom.
Any user in the system can make a voice-signaled call to an idle system telephone by pressing
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and then either dialing an extension number or pressing an Auto Dial button
programmed for voice signaling. (You can make a voice-signaled call from either a system
telephone or a single-line telephone. However, if you try to make a voice-signaled call to a single-
line telephone or an MLC-6 or TransTalk 9000-series telephone, it rings instead.)
System Telephones
6-8
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. When the green light next to
and hanging up the handset. Conversely, if you are using the speaker and
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. In addition, you can turn just the microphone
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is on, the microphone is on.
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to get a dial tone, then dial the number
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. This will mute your