Voice Prompts; Call Screening At The Telephone Base; Call Screening At The Handset; Call Intercept - AT&T CL82143 Complete User's Manual

Answering system
About the answering system

Voice prompts

The system provides voice prompts to guide you through the setup procedures
at the telephone base, message playback, remote access and recording
outgoing announcements.

Call screening at the telephone base

If the answering system and call screening are on, the announcement and the
incoming message broadcast at the telephone base when a call is answered by
the answering system.
You can turn call screening on or off using the handset (see page 57). When
call screening is off, you can temporarily turn on call screening by pressing
p/VOL+ on the telephone base. Call screening will be off for the next
incoming call.
If call screening is on and you want to silence the telephone base while it is
recording messages, press / /STOP
PLAY .

Call screening at the handset

If the answering system is on and has answered an incoming call, the
announcement and the incoming message broadcast at the telephone base.
While a message is being recorded, the handset shows To screen call, press
[SELECT]. Press /SELECT to screen the call.
MENU

Call intercept

While screening a call, you can stop recording and speak to the caller by
pressing PHONE/ on the handset.
FLASH

Base ringer

Press q/VOL- or p/VOL+ on the telephone base to adjust the ringer volume
when the telephone is not in use.
You hear a sample of the ringer while adjusting the volume. The telephone
base announces, "Base ringer is off," when you set the volume to 0.
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