Answering System New Message Indication; Message Capacity; Voice Prompts; Call Screening At The Telephone Base - VTech CS6449 User Manual

Answering system settings

Answering system new message indication

The handset screen shows , XX New message(s) and the
/PLAY/STOP indicator on the telephone base
there are new answering system messages.
To listen to the messages, press
MENU
the handset or press /PLAY/STOP on the
base (page 62).
After reviewing new message(s), the number of old message(s) appears on the
message window.
Turn the answering system on or off at the telephone base
Unless you change it, the answering system is on and
ready to record messages. You can turn the answering
system off, but if you do so, the answering system does not
answer calls and record incoming messages.
Press /ANS ON/OFF to turn the answering system on
or off. If the answering system is turned on, Calls will be
answered displays and the system announces "Calls will
be answered." If the answering system is turned off, Calls
will not be answered displays and the system announces
"Calls will not be answered."

Message capacity

The answering system can record up to 99 messages, depending on the length
of each message. Individual messages can be up to four minutes, and the
maximum recording time is approximately 11 minutes. The actual recording time
depends on individual message characteristics. Messages remain available for
replay until you delete them.
If the answering system has three minutes of recording time left, it announces,
"Less than three minutes to record," before message playback. If the answering
system has no time left, it announces, "Memory is full," before message
playback.
If you attempt to turn on the answering system but the memory is low,
Less than 3 min to record displays on the cordless handset and telephone
base screens.
HANDSET
1 new message
when
11:59 AM
/SELECT twice on
BASE
telephone 1 new message
MSG #
01 10:01 AM
Calls will
be answered
Calls will not
be answered
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Answering system settings Answering system settings
If you attempt to turn on the answering system but the memory is full, Memory
full displays on the cordless handset and telephone base screens. The base also
announces, "Memory is full," then "Calls will not be answered." The message
counter displays the number of messages.
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Voice prompts

The system provides voice prompts for message playback, recording outgoing
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announcements and during remote access.

Call screening at the telephone base

If the answering system and call screening are on, the announcement and the
incoming message are audible at the telephone base when a call arrives.
You can turn call screening on or off using a cordless handset (see page 21) or
using the telephone base. When call screening is off, you can temporarily turn
on call screening by pressing
screening will be off for the next incoming call.
If call screening is on and you want to silence the telephone base while it is
recording messages, press
screening will be on for the next call.
Call intercept
While screening a call, you can stop recording and speak to the caller by
pressing
lifting the corded handset on the telephone base.
Base ringer
Press
telephone is not in use.
You hear a sample of the ringer while adjusting the volume. The telephone base
screen shows Ringer off and
When your announcement is deleted, calls are answered with the preset
announcement.
/PLAY/
STOP
STOP
/PLAY/
/ or on a cordless handset, or pressing SPEAKER
FLASH
/VOL/ on the telephone base to adjust the ringer volume when the
when the ringer is off.
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on the telephone base. Call
on the telephone base. Call
or