Vtech CS6649-2 User Manual - Page 41

Call screening 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. • Press /STOP to temporarily silence the call screening. • Press /PLAY or VOL p to temporarily turn on the call screening if call screening is set to off. Call intercept If you want to talk to the caller whose message is being recorded, press or on a cordless handset, or /SPEAKER on the telephone base, or lift the corded handset from the telephone base. Temporarily turn off the message alert tone If the message alert tone is turned on, the telephone base beeps every 10 seconds when there are new messages. Pressing any telephone base key (except FIND HANDSET and /ANS ON/OFF) temporarily silences the message alert tone. The message alert tone resumes when you receive a new message. Record, play and delete memos Memos are your own recorded messages used as reminders for yourself or others using the same answering system. You can record your own memos using a system handset or the telephone base. Play and delete them in the same way as incoming messages. 1. Press MENU when the phone is not in use. 2. Press or to scroll to Answering sys, then press SELECT. 3. Press or to scroll to Record memo, then press SELECT. 4. The system announces, "Record after the tone. Press 5 when you are done." After the tone, speak towards the microphone. 5. To stop recording, press 5 or OFF on the cordless handset, or press 5 or /STOP on the telephone base. The system announces, "Recorded." NOTES • "Memory is full" is announced if you record a memo when the memory is full. • Each memo can be up to three minutes in length. • Memos shorter than two seconds are not recorded. 34