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Sidetone on VoIP phones
Jay Brant • Apr 26, 2023 •
Many phone users would prefer to hear their own voice in both ears as they speak. But when you hold a handset to your ear, doesn’t that necessarily block your hearing from that ear?
Not if you enable sidetone on the phone’s handset.
“Sidetone” (or “side tone”) means that, when you speak into a phone’s handset, the audio of your voice is played back through the ha
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Can you use a VoIP phone as an intercom?
Jay Brant • Apr 07, 2023 •
Yes, you can use a VoIP phone like an intercom. An intercom call on a VoIP phone means the receiving phone automatically answers the call. You can also do the reverse, that is, setup a phone to auto-answer calls.
These features may not be available on every VoIP phone and may be dependent on the VoIP phone system, rather than the phone itself.
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What is a VoIP hotline phone?
Jay Brant • Dec 16, 2022 •
We live in a world where, when we talk about our “phone”, most of the time we mean our smartphone. And that means that when we talk about our “phone”, we’re also talking about our music player, GPS, calculator, email and messaging terminal, contact book, agenda… even our barometer or level or magnifying glass. It’s truly amazing and truly wonderful.
Sometimes, however,
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