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Captioning External Answering Machine
Messages
If you call a phone number to access your voice mail messages,
CapTel
will caption the messages for you (see
Retrieving Your
Voice Mail Messages
on page 24). You can also use
CapTel
to
receive captions of voice messages left on an answering machine
that is near your
CapTel
phone by playing the messages aloud.
1.
With the handset hung up,
press the
button until
Caption External Answering
Machine Messages
is displayed.
2.
Press the button next to
OK
.
3.
Pick up the
CapTel
handset,
and place the handset mouth
piece next to the answering
machine speaker. Make sure
the handset mouthpiece is
close enough to “hear” the messages as they are played aloud.
4.
In this mode,
CapTel
will
automatically dial the
captioning service. Watch
the display to see when a
connection is established.
5.
Start playing the voice
messages aloud on your
external answering machine.
Watch the
CapTel
display to
see captions of the voice
messages.
Save or delete voice messages directly on the answering
machine. When you are finished, hang up the
CapTel
handset.
The
Caption External Answering Machine Messages
feature will go
off automatically.
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