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With the message locator, search for messages by caller ID, name, or extension in saved messages. 
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Record messages and mark them as regular, urgent, private, or secure. 
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Record messages and request a return receipt. 
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Record a live conversation with a caller and have the recording sent to your mailbox. 
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Switch between spelling name and extension when addressing a message. 
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With live reply, immediately reply to messages from other users. 
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Access email messages over the phone using the TTS feature (for Microsoft Exchange 2003 and 2007). 
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When TTS is enabled, a conversation tells you whether there are attachments to the message; when the attachment is in a 
playable or readable format, the attachment will be played or read. 
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View, listen, respond to and play back messages using the Cisco Unified Communications Widget for Visual Voicemail on 
Cisco Unified IP Phones. Learn more about Visual Voicemail here: 
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/voicesw/ps6882/ps9156/at_a_glance_c45-487475.pdf 
Speech-Enabled Messaging* 
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Use speech commands to call others in the Cisco Unity Connection directory or personal contact list (imported from 
Outlook). 
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Speak your voicemail password. 
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Speak dates and times. 
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Use speech commands to play and process messages (play, record, reply, forward, delete, save, etc.). 
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Use speech commands to edit and manage your personal greetings. 
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Use speech commands to address messages to private distribution lists. 
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Use speech commands such as pause, resume, speed up, slow down, skip ahead, and skip back to provide rich and 
granular control of messages and prompts. 
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Speech-enabled directory handlers allow outside callers to use voice commands to reach Cisco Unity Connection users. 
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Temporarily use touch tones to change setup options, and then return to speech-recognition mode. 
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A speech command tutorial is available. 
* Speech-enabled messaging is available for U.S. English only. 
Call Transfer Rules** 
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Define rules to route incoming calls by caller. 
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Define rules to route incoming calls by time of day. 
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Define rules to route incoming calls by your calendar free or busy status (Microsoft Exchange only). 
** Call transfer rules are not available with the European regional feature packages. 
End-User Features 
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Customize message-notification options, manage personal greetings, or change passwords with Cisco Unity Connection 
Assistant (the Cisco web-browser-based personal administrator). 
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Select the conversation type: full or brief prompts. 
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Record and then address a message, or address and then record a message. 
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Record a message for future delivery. 
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Record up to five personal greetings (alternative, busy, internal, off-hours, or standard). 
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Manage an alternative greeting; set the expiration date or time, notify users when an alternative greeting is set, or require 
callers to listen to the full alternative greeting. 
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Forward calls directly to an alternative greeting (or other personal greeting) without ringing the phone. 
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Specify an after-greeting action; after a user greeting, callers can leave a message, sign in, or hang up, or they can be sent 
to call handlers, directory handlers, interview handlers, or other users. 
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Use flex stack to specify the order in which messages are presented over the phone: by urgency and then by last in, first out 
(LIFO) or first in, first out (FIFO). 
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Create private distribution lists and address messages to them through the TUI or GUI. 
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Provide message notification for new messages through devices such as Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), SMS, text 
pagers, and phone destinations. 
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With a cascade message-notification feature, send additional notification types if a message is not retrieved. 
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Notifications can be sent for messages from a particular user or phone number. 
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Select whether message counts are announced; totals, saved, and new counts are available. 








