Call Screening; Call Intercept; Temporarily Turn Off The Message Alert Tone - VTech DS6641 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 q VOL or VOL p to adjust the call screening volume.
/STOP or SELECT to temporarily silence the call screening.
• Press
/PLAY, SELECT or VOL p to temporarily turn on the call screening if call
• Press
screening is set to off.
To screen a call on a cordless handset:
If the answering system is on, the announcement and the incoming message
broadcast at the telephone base when a call is answered by the answering system. At
the same time, the cordless handset shows To screen call press [SELECT]. Press
SELECT to screen the call on your cordless handset. The cordless handset shows the
caller's information. If you do not subscribe to caller ID service, the cordless handset
shows Screening...
Options while a message is being recorded:
• Press q/VOLUME or p/VOLUME to adjust the call screening volume.
• Press OFF to temporarily silence the call screening.
Press SELECT to temporarily turn on the call screening if call screening is set to off.
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• Press to switch between speakerphone mode and handset mode.

Call intercept

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

Temporarily turn off the message alert tone

If the message alert tone is turned on (see page 63), the telephone base beeps every
10 seconds when there are new messages. Pressing any telephone base key (except
1/ 2, FIND HANDSET and
alert tone.
The message alert tone resumes when you receive a new message.
/HOME on the telephone base, or lift the corded
/ANS ON/OFF) temporarily silences the message
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