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Voice Processing System Subscriber's Guide KX-TVS110 KX-TVS200 KX-TVS300 Model Please read before using and save this manual for future use.
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Thank you for purchasing the Panasonic Model Voice Processing System. The Panasonic Voice Processing System (VPS) is a powerful tool used to manage your voice communications and increase your productivity through the use of your voice mailbox. As a subscriber (the owner of a VPS mailbox), you can: •...
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Introduction Structure of the Manual This manual consists of the following sections: Section 1 Mailbox Setup Describes the procedures for customizing your mailbox. Section 2 Receiving Messages Explains how to access and manage received messages. Section 3 Sending Messages Tells you how to send messages, including recording and delivery. Section 4 Special Features Describes how to set up the special features for your mailbox.
Table of Contents Table of Contents 1 Mailbox Setup 1.1 Logging in to Your Mailbox ..................8 1.2 Recording Personal Greetings................. 9 1.3 Setting, Changing and Clearing Your Password ..........11 1.4 Recording Your Name ..................... 12 1.5 Service Access Commands ................... 13 2 Receiving Messages 2.1 Receiving Messages ....................
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Table of Contents 4.9 Interview Mailbox .....................41 4.10 Recording Personal Greetings for Caller ID ............42 4.11 Assigning Caller ID Numbers for Personal Greeting for Caller ID ....43 4.12 Personal Caller Name Announcement..............45 4.13 Live Call Screening....................47 4.14 Recording a Two-Way Conversation ..............48 4.15 Setting Telephone Numbers for Call Forwarding to CO........49 4.16 Remote Call Forwarding Set.................50 Appendix...
Mailbox Setup 1.1 Logging in to Your Mailbox Before you access Subscriber Services, you must first open your mailbox. FROM YOUR EXTENSION Extn. No. of VPS FROM ANOTHER EXTENSION Enter the extension Off-hook . number of the VPS. FROM YOUR EXTENSION (When the Direct Mailbox Access is enabled) To receive a message IF YOU HAVE SET YOUR PASSWORD...
Mailbox Setup 1.2 Recording Personal Greetings After reaching your mailbox, callers will hear your personal greeting message(s). You can record 3 kinds of personal greetings: No Answer Greeting, Busy Greeting, and After Hours Greeting. The VPS plays the appropriate message for each call. Personal greeting messages are always followed by a tone and a chance to leave a message.
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Mailbox Setup • Recording a Caller ID Greeting is available only when your COS parameter is enabled. To record a Caller ID Greeting, see 4.10 Recording Personal Greetings for Caller ID. • Be sure to exit from the menu AFTER the greeting is accepted. Otherwise the greeting will not be stored.
Mailbox Setup 1.3 Setting, Changing and Clearing Your Password The VPS provides the option of assigning a password to your mailbox to protect the messages stored there from unauthorized access. A password should be no longer than 10 digits (using the keys 0-9).
Mailbox Setup 1.4 Recording Your Name The recording of your name informs callers that they have reached the correct mailbox (for example, when transferring a message to a subscriber, they will hear the subscriber’s name). In addition, if a caller does not know the mailbox number, she may specify the mailbox by entering the first 3 or 4 letters of the owner's name.
Mailbox Setup 1.5 Service Access Commands Before routinely using the VPS, you should familiarize yourself with the Service Access Commands shown in the Appendix. The most important ones are the following: #6 — pressing this during system prompts activates Voice Mail Service. You can record a message after entering a mailbox number at the prompt.
Receiving Messages 2.1 Receiving Messages The VPS plays both the new and saved messages that are in your mailbox along with the date, time, and sender information pertaining to each message. To repeat the message Subscriber’s Main Menu To replay the previous message Log into your Press 1.
Receiving Messages 2.2 Replying to Messages This feature allows you to reply to messages that have been sent by other subscribers through their mailboxes. • You can reply only to messages that were transferred to you, or originated as "Delivering Message to Other Subscribers". TO RECORD A MESSAGE Subscriber’s Main Menu...
Receiving Messages 2.3 Message Transfer This function allows you to transfer messages to other mailboxes. • If the message is assigned as private, it cannot be transferred to other mailboxes. OPTION 1: Enter the mailbox Subscriber's by NUMBER. Main Menu OPTION 2: Enter the mailbox Log into your mailbox.
Receiving Messages 2.4 Accessing Your Mailbox from an Outside Telephone Follow this procedure to check your messages remotely. • It may be possible for you to choose another language for Subscriber Service prompts. If you are interested in this option, please contact your System Administrator. Mailbox No.
Sending Messages 3.1 Delivering Messages to Other Subscribers Use this feature to send the same message to several other subscribers. OPTION1: Enter the mailbox by NUMBER Subscriber's Main Menu OPTION2: Enter the mailbox by NAME Log into your mailbox. Press 2. •...
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Sending Messages TO RECORD A MESSAGE TO SET DELIVERY TIME AND/OR PRIVATE STATUS Record a message. Press 1 Press 2 to FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY to end accept the recording. message. TO SET DELIVERY TIME AND/OR PRIVATE STATUS TO SET DELIVERY TIME For example: Delivery Time 5:00 is entered as [5] and [#].
Sending Messages 3.2 Checking Mailbox Distribution This function allows you to check the status of messages, which you have recorded in your mailbox, for delivery to other mailboxes. • You can check the delivery status of up to 84 message transmissions. IF THE MESSAGE HAS NOT BEEN RECEIVED Subscriber's...
Sending Messages 3.3 Setting up an External Message Delivery List Setting up an External Message Delivery List lets you send the same message to several outside parties and/or extensions with a single operation. Up to 2 lists can be maintained at the same time, and each list can contain up to 8 members.
Sending Messages 3.4 Sending External Delivery Messages Use this feature to record and send external delivery messages. • The System Administrator or the System Manager must authorize this feature before it can be used. • Moreover, External Message Delivery has various limits (retry times, message length, max.
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Sending Messages • The 4-digit password is not your password to log into your mailbox. You can decide it freely each time you send an external delivery message. Be sure to share the 4-digit password with the message receiver. • You will not hear "...
Sending Messages 3.5 Receiving External Delivery Messages Use this feature to receive External Delivery Messages. IF NEEDED 4-digit Password Pick up a call Press 1 to Enter the Press #. Press On-hook. receive the password that the from the VPS. end the call.
Sending Messages 3.6 Replying to External Delivery Messages Use this feature to reply to External Delivery Messages. IF NEEDED 4-digit Password Pick up a call Press 1 to receive Enter the password Press #. the message. that the sender assigned. from the VPS.
Sending Messages 3.7 Checking and Setting External Message Delivery Status After recording external delivery messages, you can check the delivery schedule or review the specified recipients. You can only check the delivery status (to, if you wish, cancel delivery or change the delivery time and date) of messages that have not yet been delivered.
Press 4. Press 1. Follow the prompts On-hook. mailbox. according to your needs. • The Intercom Paging feature is available only if you are using a Panasonic KX-T series telephone system with DPT Integration (see "DPT Integration" in Glossary). Subscriber's Guide...
Special Features 4.2 Covering Extension The caller goes to the covering extension in 3 ways: • One way is via the Automated Attendant Service when the Incomplete Call Handling Status has enabled Covering Extension Transfer Status (see 4.3 Incomplete Call Handling Status).
Automated Attendant Service Status Follow the prompts according to your needs. Make your selection. On-hook. • The Intercom Paging feature is available only if you are using a Panasonic KX-T series telephone system with DPT Integration (see "DPT Integration" in Glossary). Subscriber's Guide...
Special Features 4.4 Message Reception Mode Use this feature to direct callers to either your regular or interview mailbox. This mode is effective for: (1) Incomplete Call Handling Service (when the subscriber's line is busy, or she cannot take the call, or when she has enabled Call Blocking), and (2) when the transfer destination of calls is set to a Logical Extension.
Special Features 4.5 Personal Group Distribution Lists Use the Personal Group Distribution List to send the same message to several mailboxes in a single operation. Up to 4 lists can be maintained with each list containing up to 20 mailbox members.
Special Features 4.6 Deleting Group Distribution Members Use this feature to delete group members from a Group Distribution List. You can delete the members individually or altogether. Subscriber’s Group No. Main Menu Log into your Press 5. Press 4. Enter the group Press 3 to delete mailbox.
Special Features 4.7 Deleting Group Distribution List Names Use this feature to delete a group distribution list name. Subscriber’s Group No. Main Menu Log into your mailbox. Press 5. Press 4. Enter the group distribution number (1-4). Press 1 to change Press 3 to erase On-hook.
Special Features 4.8 Message Waiting Notification The VPS is able to notify you when a new message has been recorded in your mailbox. There are 3 ways by which the VPS notifies you: (1) Message Waiting Lamp on your proprietary telephone, (2) a call to another telephone (e.g., your mobile phone), or (3) your beeper.
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Special Features WHEN YOU PRESS 3 TO CHANGE FOR A CO LINE IF NEEDED Line Access Code Area Code Press 1 Enter a Line Access Enter the Press 1, 2 or 3. to change. Code to seize a CO line. Area Code.
Special Features 4.9 Interview Mailbox An Interview Mailbox plays prerecorded questions to callers and records their answers. You can record up to 10 questions and set the answer lengths from 4 to 32 s. The answers are recorded and stored, in order, in your mailbox. You must set the answer length and record the questions.
Caller ID numbers. To assign Caller ID numbers, see 4.11 Assigning Caller ID Numbers for Personal Greeting for Caller ID. • This feature is available to you only if you are using a Panasonic KX-T series telephone system with DPT Integration (see "DPT Integration" in Glossary). •...
Special Features 4.11 Assigning Caller ID Numbers for Personal Greeting for Caller ID Use this feature to assign Caller ID numbers for prerecorded personal greetings. Each greeting supports up to 8 Caller ID numbers. • To assign Caller ID numbers, first record a personal greeting (see 4.10 Recording Personal Greetings for Caller ID).
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Special Features • When you add a Caller ID number, follow the steps in "TO ASSIGN FOR THE FIRST TIME" to assign. Subscriber's Guide...
(Caller ID Screening), and (3) the VPS pages you by intercom (Intercom Paging). • This feature is available to you only if you are using a Panasonic KX-T series telephone system with DPT Integration (see "DPT Integration" in Glossary). •...
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Special Features TO CHANGE TO CHANGE CALLER ID NUMBER To change Caller ID number To change Caller Name Caller ID No. To accept Enter a Caller ID Press 2 Make your selection. number up to 20 digits. to change. TO CHANGE CALLER NAME Press 3 to accept On-hook.
• This feature is available to you only if you are using a Panasonic KX-T series telephone system with DPT Integration (see "DPT Integration" in Glossary), and if the System Administrator has provided your extension with this feature.
Normally, conversation recording time is limited. However, there is an "Unlimited Message Length" option. Call your System Administrator for assistance. • This feature is available to you only if you are using a Panasonic KX-T series telephone system with DPT Integration (see "DPT Integration" in Glossary). •...
Remote Call Forwarding to a CO line (see 4.16 Remote Call Forwarding Set). • This feature is available to you only if you are using a Panasonic KX-T series telephone system with DPT Integration (see "DPT Integration" in Glossary). •...
No Answer Calls, Forward to a CO Line, and Cancel Forwarding. • This feature is available to you only if you are using a Panasonic KX-T series telephone system with DPT Integration (see "DPT Integration" in Glossary). To forward all calls Subscriber’s...
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Special Features • Your System Administrator or System Manager must authorize this feature before it can be used. • You must program Telephone number 1 and/or Telephone number 2 beforehand in Mailbox Management (See 4.15 Setting Telephone Numbers for Call Forwarding to CO);...
Glossary Glossary Alternate Extension Group Transfers the call coming into the extensions in this group following the sequence specified by "Alternate Extension Transfer Sequence". Auto Configuration (Available with DPT Integration only.) The VPS can automatically draw information from the KX-TD500, the KX-TD816, the KX-TD1232, the KX-TA1232 or the KX- TD308.
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Glossary Called Party ID (Sometimes referred to as Follow-On ID) Allows the PBX to dial extra digits to bring the caller directly to a specified mailbox, rather than to the General Delivery Mailbox. Caller ID Call Routing (Available with DPT Integration only.) The VPS automatically sends calls from pre- assigned Caller ID numbers to the desired extension, mailbox (including System Group Distribution List) or Custom Service.
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Glossary Delayed Ringing There are 2 kinds of delayed ringing applications: (1) The VPS is used as the no-answer destination for the Intercept Routing feature of your PBX. (2) DIL 1:N (CO line to several extensions) terminates on telephones and VPS ports.
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Glossary External Delivery Message A message intended for automatic delivery to outside parties and/or extensions. The message can be delivered immediately or at a specified time. External Message Delivery List Allows the subscriber to create 2 lists to deliver messages to outside parties. Each list can have 8 destinations.
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Glossary Incomplete Call Handling Service Calls are considered incomplete when there is no answer or if the line is busy. There are 6 options for the Incomplete Call Handling Service: (1) to record a message from the caller, (2) transfer the caller to a covering extension, (3) page the mailbox owner via the PBX, (4) notify the mailbox owner via beeper, (5) transfer the caller to the operator, or...
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Glossary LOAD One of the utility commands that is used to load new or saved data to the VPS from a personal computer. Logical Extension (All Calls Transfer to Mailbox) An extension that always receives calls directly into its mailbox. This feature is used by subscribers who are often unavailable or who do not have a telephone.
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Glossary Message Retrieval Order The order in which the subscriber retrieves messages: Last In First Out (LIFO) or First In First Out (FIFO). Message Transfer Allows a subscriber to reroute a message to another mailbox unless the message was marked "private". Additional comments can be added to this message. Message Waiting Lamp Light on proprietary telephones that lights when there are messages in the mailbox.
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Glossary Password A combination of numbers selected by the subscriber to protect access to her mailbox. If forgotten, the System Administrator or System Manager can clear it so that the subscriber can select a new password. Personal Greetings A subscriber can record messages to greet callers. There are 3 kinds of Personal Greetings: (1) No Answer Greeting (2) Busy Signal Greeting...
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Glossary Remote Call Forward to CO (Available with DPT Integration only.) Allows the System Administrator to program Telephone number 1 and Telephone number 2 as the destination to which the callers are forwarded when the Remote Call Forwarding is set to an outside (CO) line.
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Glossary Station Programming Programming via the proprietary telephone. Subscriber A person who has an assigned mailbox. System Administration System programming can be performed via 2 ways: (1) Locally (personal computer connected directly to the RS-232C port of the VPS), or (2) remotely (personal computer connected via the telephone network and the internal modem card [KX- TVS300 only] of the VPS).
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A general term used for messages recorded over the phone from one person to another. Voice Prompt Recorded VPS instructions to callers. These are either system prompts or user prompts. Voice Processing System (e.g., Panasonic KX-TVS110, KX-TVS200, and KX- TVS300). Subscriber's Guide...
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