10
Basic Operation
SCREENING CALLS
To screen your calls, let the TAD answer.
Listen to the caller’s message through the
TAD’s speaker. If you decide to answer the
call, pick up any phone connected to the
same phone line as the TAD. The TAD stops
recording and resets to answer the next call.
RECORDING A MEMO
A memo is a message that you record by
speaking directly into the TAD, without call-
ing in on the phone. Follow these steps to
record a memo up to 3 minutes long.
1. Press
MEMO
and
the TAD beeps.
The display timer
starts counting.
Record your
memo.
2. When you finish speaking, press
CODE/
STOP
. The message indicator light
flashes until you play the memo. The
light remains on until you delete played
memos (see “Deleting Messages”). To
play back a memo, see “Playing Incom-
ing Messages/Memos.”
PLAYING INCOMING
MESSAGES/MEMOS
The MESSAGE indicator flashes after the
TAD records one or more incoming messag-
es or memos. The display shows how many
messages were recorded.
1. To listen to all messages (including
memos), press
PAUSE/PLAY
.
The TAD plays each recorded message
in sequence, beginning with the first new
message. Before each message, the
TAD announces the day and time the
message was recorded. After playing
the last message, the TAD says, “End of
messages.”
After you play the messages, the MES-
SAGE indicator lights steadily and the
TAD automatically saves the messages
and resets to answer calls.
2. To replay the messages, press
PAUSE/
PLAY
.
Note: To pause while listening to mes-
sages, press
PAUSE/PLAY
. The playback
resumes automatically after 1 minute or
when you press
PAUSE/PLAY
again.
3. During message playback, you can
repeat the current message, or skip
backward or forward to the previous or
next message.
• To repeat the current message, press
REPEAT
.
• To skip backward to any message,
press
REPEAT
until you reach the
message number you want to hear.
• To skip forward to the next message,
press
SKIP
.
4. To stop message playback at any time,
press
CODE/STOP
.
DELETING MESSAGES
You can delete
messages indi-
vidually during
playback, or all at
once after play-
back.
To delete a particular incoming message or
memo (after listening to it), press
DELETE
im-
mediately during playback.
To delete all messages after playback, hold
down
DELETE
for about 2 seconds. The TAD
says, “Messages deleted”. The display
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