Screening telephone calls while you’re at home
The VoiceAnnounce 500 works with standard (number-only)
and deluxe (name and number) caller ID service available from
your local telephone company.
The unit identifies calls by announcing the caller’s ten-digit
telephone number between the first and second ring. If the call
is coming from a number that has been blocked, it will announce
“Number Blocked.” If the telephone number is unidentified, the
unit will announce “Number Unknown.”
If the phone is still ringing, and you didn’t hear the number being
announced, just press the big key and it will repeat the number.
Audibly Reviewing Calls
The unit stores the last ten calls in memory for audible review.
This is convenient for finding out who called while you were
out. There are two ways to perform audible call review:
1. Press the big key to hear the date, time, and telephone
number of the most recent call in the log. Subsequent pressing
and releasing this key will go further back into the call log and
announce information about earlier calls. Pressing the big key
while an announcement is in process pre-empts the current
announcement and goes to the next call. After the final call is
announced, the unit beeps. Continued pressing will start back at
the top of the log again.
2. Hold down the big key for 2-seconds, and it will announce
the number of new calls followed by the date, time, and
telephone number of every new call in the log. After the final call
is announced, the unit beeps.
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