On-hook monitoring, Group listen feature – Inter-Tel Axxess User Manual
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System Features
AXXESS
®
ADMINISTRATOR’S GUIDE – January 2004
On-Hook Monitoring
ON-HOOK MONITORING
An Inter-Tel phone user with a speakerphone can monitor the call (listen to a recorded mes-
sage, wait for the call to be answered, or wait on hold), and then speak handsfree when 
answered.
T
O
USE
ON
-
HOOK
MONITOR
:
1.
While on a call, press the Speaker button and hang up. If you do not want to be heard 
and if the MUTE button is not lit, press the 
button or MUTE menu button, or
press the Special button and enter the Microphone Mute On/Off feature code (314). You 
can hear the other party (if the microphone is muted, you cannot be heard). The Speaker 
button is lit (and the 
button is lit if the microphone was muted).
2.
To return to the conversation: You may lift the handset or speak handsfree. (If the 
microphone was muted, press the lit 
button or the UNMUTE menu button to
speak. The
button goes off.)
GROUP LISTEN FEATURE
The Group Listen feature allows an Inter-Tel phone user to transmit a conversation over the 
phone speaker while in handset or headset mode. This allows other people in the room to listen 
to the conversation. However, the phone microphone remains disabled so that only the headset 
or handset user can speak.
This feature cannot be used on a handsfree call. The user must be on a call using the handset or 
a headset before entering the feature code. Group Listen cannot be used on single-line sets.
T
O
TURN
THE
GROUP
LISTEN
FEATURE
ON
OR
OFF
DURING
A
CALL
:
While on a call using the handset or a headset, press the Special button and enter the 
Group Listen feature code (312). You hear a confirmation tone, and the display shows 
GROUP LISTEN ON or GROUP LISTEN OFF. (The other party will not hear the 
confirmation tone.)
NOTE:
If using a headset on a Model 8500, 8520, or 8560 Phone when Group Listen is
enabled, the volume control adjusts the volume of the headset, not the speaker.
When the Group Listen feature is active in handset mode, the Speaker button lamp will remain 
unlit. This allows the user to place the call into handsfree mode at any time during the call by 
pressing the Speaker button. When the feature is active in headset mode, the Speaker lamp is 
lit. Pressing the button will disconnect the call.
The Group Listen feature code can be programmed under a feature button or DSS/BLF button 
just like any other feature. The button functions as a toggle. If the button has a lamp, it is lit 
when the feature is activated and unlit when the feature is turned off.
If the Group Listen feature is active when an OHVA call is received by the phone, the OHVA 
call will camp on (because the speaker is busy). 
MUTE
MUTE
MUTE
MUTE
