1Technical Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a telephone set capable of transferring a recorded message to other telephone sets.
2. Description of the Prior Art
With a conventional telephone set, in order to send the same message to a plurality of persons, the user must manually dial the respective persons and speak the same message to each of them, which is a time consuming task. On the other hand, using a telephone set or an automatic telephone answering apparatus which includes a recording/reproducing unit and an automatic dialing unit, the same message may be recorded in the recording/reproducing unit, and the automatic dialing unit may automatically and sequentially call the respective persons, so that the same recorded message is reproduced and sent to each of them.
However, if a destination telephone set is switched to an automatic telephone answering apparatus, the types of destination automatic telephone answering apparatuses utilizable for this purpose are limited. This is because an automatic telephone answering apparatus of a certain type may not accept the message as an incoming message and hence will not record it. In addition, when the message recorded in the recording/reproducing unit is reproduced and sent to a destination telephone set so that a called party can listen to the message, the message must be reproduced after a remote control signal or a mode number for a remote operation is supplied from the destination telephone set so as to keep the privacy of the message. For this purpose, the called party must have an oscillator for the remote control signal or be able to input the mode number for each call using the ten keys of a push-button telephone.