About Answering System And Voicemail; Answering System Settings; Record Your Own Announcement - VTech CS6648-2 User Manual

About answering system and voicemail

Your telephone has separate indicators for two different types of voice messages:
those left on its built-in digital answering system and those left with your telephone
service provider's voicemail. Each alerts you to new messages differently.
•
/PLAY/ST�P on the telephone base flashes, and XX new messages
If
displays on the cordless handsets and telephone base, there are new messages
in the built-in answering system. It can record up to 99 messages, depending on
the length of each message. Each message can be up to 3 minutes in length.
The total recording time is approximately 4 minutes.
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and New voicemail display on the cordless handsets and the telephone base,
If
your telephone service provider is indicating that it has new voicemail for you. Contact
your telephone service provider for more information on how to access your voicemail.

Answering system settings

Default settings are indicated by asterisks (*).
Menu setting
Call screening
# of rings
Remote code
Msg alert tone
Recording time
Set number of rings
You can set the answering system to answer an incoming call after 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 rings;
or toll saver. If you choose toll saver, the answering system answers a call after 2 rings
when you have new messages, or after 4 rings when you have no new messages.
Press MENU when the telephone base/cordless handset is not in use.
.
Scroll to Answering sys then press SELECT.
2.
Scroll to Ans sys setup then press SELECT.
3.
Scroll to # of rings then press SELECT.
4.
5. Press or

Record your own announcement

You can use the preset announcement to answer calls, or replace it with your
own recorded announcement. The announcement can be up to 90 seconds
in length.
. Press MENU when the telephone base/cordless handset is not in use.
2. Press or
The system announces, "To play, press 2. To record, press 7." Then press 7
3.
to record.
The system announces, "Record after the tone. Press 5 when you are done."
4.
After the tone, speak towards the microphone.
Press 5 when done.
5.
Answering system operation
Turn the answering system on or off
The answering system must be turned on to answer and record messages.
/ANS �N/�FF on the telephone base to turn the built-in answering
• Press
system on or off.
Message playback
/PLAY
Press
�ptions during playback:
Press ��L
•
/SKIP
• Press
/REPEAT
• Press
twice to listen to the previous message.
X/DELETE
• Press
next message.
/ST�P
• Press
Set whether you hear the callers while they are
leaving messages to you.
Set the number of times the telephone rings
before the answering system answers.
Set a two-digit security code to access the
answering system remotely from any touch-tone
telephone.
Set whether the telephone beeps every 0
seconds to alert you of new messages.
Set the recording time for each incoming
message.
to choose 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 or Toll saver and then press SELECT.
to scroll to Answering sys then press SELECT twice.
at the telephone base
when the telephone base is not in use.
��L to adjust the speaker volume.
or
to skip to the next message.
to repeat the message currently playing. Press
to delete the playing message. The system advances to the
to stop.
Description

�ptions
Screening: �n*
Screening: �ff
6; 5; 4; 3*; 2;
Toll saver
19*
Tone: �ff*
Tone: �n
3 minutes*
2 minutes
1 minutes
/REPEAT