Using The Handset, Speaker, And Microphone - Avaya PARTNER Installation And Use Manual

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PARTNER Advanced Communications System Installation, Programming, and Use
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
i
.

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
(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
S
by 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
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
i*
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.)
You cannot make a voice-signaled call to an extension that has the Cell Phone Connect feature
active. (The call will not appear at the extension.)
Consider the following:
The HFAI feature can be turned on or off only when your telephone is idle. Muting your voice
while you are on a call only turns off the microphone for the duration of the call.
If HFAI is on and you are already on a call, you will not receive any voice-signaled calls to your
extension—they ring instead.
If you make a voice-signaled intercom call to a busy extension, it may result in a Voice
Interrupt On Busy call to that extension.
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
6
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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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6
. This will mute your