Vtech 1739 User Manual - Page 8

Operation Listen to incoming messages When the system plays incoming messages, the message window displays the number of the message playing. Before playing each message, the system announces the day and time the message was received. If the clock is not set when the message was recorded, or there was a power failure after it was set, the system will announce "Time and day not set," after the time and day. After playing the last message, the system announces, "End of messages�."� If you want the system to answer a call when you are playing a message, press PLAY/STOP to end message playback. To play messages, press P��LA�Y��/STOP. If there are new messages, they will be played. If there are no new messages, the old messages will be played. If there are no messages, the system announces "No messages." To play a message at half speed, press and hold MEMO/REPEAT while the message is playing. To play a message twice as fast, press and hold ANNC/SKIP while the message is playing. To repeat a message, press MEMO/REPEAT to repeat the message. Press MEMO/REPEAT during the time/day announcement or press MEMO/REPEAT twice to hear the previous message. If there is only one message recorded in the system, the same message will be played again. To skip to the next message, press ANNC/SKIP. To stop message playback, press PLAY/STOP. Save messages The system can record up to 99 messages, depending on the length of each message. Individual messages can be up to 3 minutes. The maximum combined recording time for the announcement, messages and memos is approximately 40 minutes. The actual recording time depends on individual message characteristics. Messages remain available for replay until you delete them. Memory monitor To find out the remaining recording time: 1. If the system is on, press ON/OFF to turn the system off. 2. Press ON/OFF again to turn the system on. The system announces the remaining recording time in minutes. If the system has less than 5 minutes of recording time left, it announces, "The machine is on. Less than five minutes to record." Memory is full When the memory is full, or when 99 messages have been recorded, F flashes in the message window. You need to delete messages to make room for new ones. When the memory is full, the system answers calls after 10 rings and announces, "Memory is full," and then beeps twice without playing the outgoing announcement. Enter your remote access code and delete some or all messages. To delete all messages, press and hold DELETE in idle mode. The system announces "Messages deleted" and permanently deletes all messages. The message window displays 0. If there are new messages, the system will play an error tone and will not delete any messages. To delete selected messages, press DELETE while the desired message is being played. The system will delete the message and play the next message. If you want to replay a message before deleting it, press MEMO/REPEAT.