Activating/Deactivating Call Screening - Siemens Gigaset C450 User Manual

Operating the answer machine of the Gigaset C475 base station
Picking up a call from the answer
machine
You can pick up a call while the answer
machine is recording or is being operated
via remote operation:
c /
§Accept§
Press the talk or display key.
Recording stops and you can speak to the
caller.
If 2 seconds of the call have already been
recorded when you pick it up, the call will
be displayed as a new message. The f
key on the handset flashes.
You can accept the call even if it is not sig-
nalled on the handset.
Diverting an external call to the answer
machine
You can divert an incoming external call to
the answer machine even if it is deacti-
vated.
Precondition: Sufficient memory space is
available on the answer machine.
An external call is signalled on the hand-
set:
Ÿ
Press the display key.
The answer machine starts immediately in
recording mode and records the call. The
set time for the call acceptance (page 37)
is ignored.
Activating/deactivating two-way
recording
You can record an external call with the
answer machine.
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Inform the caller that the call is being
recorded.
Open menu.
§Options§
Two Way Record
Select and press
The two-way recording is indicated on the
display by an advisory text and is added to
the answer machine list as a new mes-
sage.
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.
§OK§
Press the display key to stop
§End§
the two-way recording.
The maximum recording time depends on
the memory available on the answer
machine. If the memory is full you will
hear an end tone, the recording is
aborted, and the call recorded up to that
point is listed in the answer machine list as
a new message. If the answer machine
was in
Ans. & Record
the mode. You will receive
Announce Only
an instruction to delete old messages.
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Delete old messages.
The answer machine automatically
switches back to the set mode once dele-
tion is complete.
Activating/deactivating call
screening
During recording of a message you can
screen a call via the loudspeaker of regis-
tered handsets.
Permanently activating/deactivating
call screening
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v Ð
Voice Mail
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Handset ( = on)
a
Press and hold (idle status).
You can switch off the
tion on the handset during the recording.
Switching off call screening for the
current recording
Press the display key.
§Silence§
mode, it will switch to
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Call Screening
func-
Call Screening