AT&T MERLIN Attendant for MERLIN LEGEND Installer's Manual page 39

Programming Features of MERLIN Attendant
customer is not using an announcement, set the allocated time to 00. The
default allocations are as follows:
NOTE:
If there is no recording present, but time is allocated for a recording, a beep
sounds, followed by silence. The silence lasts for the duration allocated for the
missing recording. The full period of silence is repeated each time a call is
received.
Change the time setting to 00 to eliminate the recording.
Table 2-1
Seconds
NOTE:
If the time allocated to one announcement is increased, decrease another
time accordingly so that the total time does not exceed 64 seconds.
Announcements are recorded only up to the time allocated. If while recording
an announcement you run over the time allowed, the recording stops at the
time allocated. Therefore, always play back the announcements to be sure
they were completely recorded. See "Playing Back Announcements" in this
section.
You must enter the authorized caller mode before you can perform this
procedure (see "Entering the MERLIN Attendant Authorized Caller Mode").
Perform the following steps to reallocate announcement times:
CAUTION:
This procedure causes all announcements to be erased.
Default Announcement Time Allocations
20 Day announcement
2 0 Night announcement
14 Transfer Fail announcement
5 Hold announcement
5 Connect announcement
Announcement
Reallocating Announcement Times
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