AT&T DECT EL52459 - Manual (Page 43)

Answering system
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About the answering system
New message indication
The message window on the telephone base flashes and
shows on the handset when there are new answering system
messages.
If the new message alert tone is turned on, the telephone base
beeps every 10 seconds when there are unreviewed messages.
NOTE: If the answering system has less than five minutes of recording
time left, the remaining time is announced.
Call screening at the telephone base
If the answering system is on and the telephone base volume is not off (set
to 1 or higher), you hear the announcement and the incoming message when
a call comes in. If you want the telephone base to be silent while recording
messages, make sure the telephone base volume is set to 0.
Call intercept
While screening a call, you can stop recording and speak to the caller by
pressing
PHONE
/FLASH
or SPEAKER on the handset.
Base ringer
Press
VOLUMEpq on the telephone base to adjust the ringer volume when
the telephone is not in use.
A sample of the ringer sounds as you adjust the volume. The telephone base
announces, “Base ringer is off.” when you set the volume to 0.
Temporarily turning off the message alert tone
Pressing any telephone base key (except
HANDSET LOCATOR) temporarily
silences the message alert tone.
If you press
DELETE when in idle mode, there is a voice prompt to direct you
to press DELETE again to delete all old messages, and the message alert
tone is temporarily silenced.
The message alert tone is re-activated with the next incoming message.
Voice prompts
The system provides voice prompts to guide you through remote access and
recording outgoing announcements.
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