Call Screening; Call Intercept; Temporarily Turn Off The Message Alert Tone - VTech CareLine SN1157 User Manual

Answering system operation

Call screening

To screen a call at the telephone base:
If the answering system and call screening are on, the announcement
and the incoming message broadcast at the telephone base while the
call is answered by the answering system.
Options while a message is being recorded:
• Press qVOL or pVOL to adjust the listening volume.
/STOP to temporarily turn off the feature.
• Press
SILENCE
• Press
• Press SCREEN
To screen a call at a cordless handset:
If the answering system and call screening are on, press SELECT. The
announcement and the incoming message broadcast at the handset
while the call is answered by the answering system.
Options while a message is being recorded:
+
• Press VOL
Press OFF to temporarily turn off the feature.
•
Press SELECT to temporarily turn on the feature if it is set to off.
•

Call intercept

If you want to talk to the caller whose message is being recorded, press
or
on a cordless handset, or SPEAKER
or lift the corded handset from the telephone base.

Temporarily turn off the message alert tone

If the message alert tone is turned on, the telephone base beeps every
10 seconds when there are new messages. Pressing any telephone base
key (except FIND HS) temporarily silences the message alert tone.
The message alert tone resumes when you receive a new message.
to temporarily mute the feature.
to temporarily turn on the feature if it is set to off.
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or VOL to adjust the listening volume.
on the telephone base,
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