Working With Voice Messaging & Call History

Introducing the Voice Messages Window Setting Voice Message Preferences Listening to Your Voice Messages Managing Your Voice Messages

Listening to Your Voice Messages

When you miss or decline a PC-to-PC call in BT Yahoo! Messenger, the caller has the option of leaving a voice message up to two minutes long. You’ll know that you have new voice messages if you see the burst next to the voice message button near the top of the Contact Search bar.

The burst next to the voice message button indicates that you have new messages.

You can listen to voice messages at your convenience. Messenger doesn’t remove them until you decide to delete them.

 

Here’s How

  1. To access your voice messages, click the voice message button near the top of the Contact Search bar.

    Click the voice message button to go to your new messages.

    The Voice Messages & Call History window opens, with the Voice Messages option selected on the left and the most recent voice message selected on the right.

    The Voice Messages window lists your new messages.Enlarge

    Tip: Messages that you haven’t listened to appear in bold in the messages list.

  2. Click the Play button to listen to the selected message.

    Click the Play button to listen to the selected message.

    Tip: When you select a row containing the voice message icon, Messenger automatically begins playing the message.

  3. While a message is playing, you can manipulate the recording in several ways:

    Pause button Click the Pause button to pause the message. Click the Play button again to resume after pausing.
    Skip backward button Click the Skip Backward button to go to an earlier part of the message.
    Skip forward button Click the Skip Forward button to go to a later part of the message.
    Dragging the slider with the cursor Drag the slider to locate a particular portion of the message.
    Volume button Click the Volume button to adjust the volume.

  4. If you have more than one voice message, you can select and listen to each one in turn. The message starts playing as soon as you select it.

 

What’s Next

You can also review and delete voice messages in the Voice Messages & Call History window.

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Words to Know

  • PC-to-PC calling: the ability to call another person’s computer from your computer; similar to placing a phone call. Both you and the person you are calling must have a Yahoo! ID and be logged into Yahoo! Messenger.
  • Voicemail: a message left in the caller’s own voice for the intended recipient to listen to later.