Voice Prompts; Message Capacity; Answering System New Message Indication; Call Screening - AT&T EL52201 User Manual

Answering system
Answering system overview

voice prompts

The system provides voice prompts to guide you to operate the
answering system.

message capacity

The answering system can record up to 99 messages, depending on the
length of each message. The maximum recording time (including message,
announcement and memo) is 11 minutes and the recording time for
individual messages can be set to 3 minutes, 2 minutes or 1 minute (page
43). The actual recording time depends on individual message characteristics.
Messages remain available for replay until you delete them.
If the answering system has less than three minutes of recording time left,
"Less than 3 minutes to record" is announced before the message playback
and rEC mEm LOW appears on the handset screen.
If the memory is full, the answering system announces, "Memory is full."
The number of messages and F flash alternatively in the message window,
and rEC mEm FuLL appears on the handset screen. You must delete some
messages before recording new ones.

Answering system new message indication

When there are new messages (including memos) on the answering system,
the number of new messages stored flashes in the message
HANDSET 1
window on the telephone base and the icon and
16 NEW MESSAGES
xx NEW mEssAGEs appear on the screen of each system
handset. If the message alert tone is turned on, the
telephone base beeps every 10 seconds when there are
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new messages.
To listen to messages recorded on your digital answering system, use the
menu from a handset or press /pLAy/ on the telephone base (see
sTOp
message playback on page 47).

Call screening

If the answering system and call screening are on, the announcement and
the incoming message can be broadcast at the telephone base or the
handset when a call arrives.
Call screening at the base:
You can turn call screening on or off using the handset
(see Call screening on page 41). When call screening
is off, you can temporarily turn on the call screening
/pLAy/ /vOLumE+ on the
by pressing or
sTOp
telephone base. The call screening will automatically be
off for the next incoming call.
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