User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Vocera User Guide
- What’s New
- Important Safety Instructions
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to Vocera
- Getting Started
- Features of Your Badge
- Basic Calling
- Logging In and Out
- Recording Names and Greetings
- Calling Other Users
- Calling a Member of a Group
- Broadcasting to a Group
- Training the Genie
- Answering a Call
- Ending a Call
- Using Buttons to Answer “Yes” or “No”
- Call Waiting
- Putting a Caller on Hold and Releasing the Hold
- Using Do Not Disturb
- Sending a Voice Message
- Playing, Saving, and Erasing Voice Messages
- Commands You Can Use During Message Play
- Using the Auto Answer Commands
- Advanced Commands
- Commands for Group Managers
- Maintaining Your Badge
- Voice and Text Email Messages
- The User Console
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Why does the Genie sometimes have trouble understanding me?
- Why is my badge chirping or beeping?
- Why does my badge sometimes beep when I’m talking to someone?
- Why does my badge display say “Searching for Server”?
- Why does my badge beep and then restart?
- None of the buttons on the badge seem to work, and the screen is frozen or blank. How do I get the badge to work again?
- How can I stop the system from logging me out when I put my badge in the charger?
- I heard a busy signal when I pressed the Call button. What happened?
- I can make calls, but I can’t receive calls or messages. What do I do?
- Some of my text messages begin with code such as
- End User Sales Agreement
- End User License Agreement
- Specifications and Regulatory Notices
- Command Reference
- Summon and Dismiss the Genie
- Log In and Log Out
- Record Your Name, Greeting, and Voiceprint
- Call a User or Group Member
- Dial a Telephone Number
- Place a Conference Call
- Initiate a Broadcast
- Forward a Call
- Transfer a Call
- Listen to and Leave Voice Messages
- Block and Accept Calls
- Locate Users and Groups
- Work with your own Groups
- Manage Groups
- Miscellaneous
- Index
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Welcome to Vocera
Your new Vocera badge provides fast, simple, person-to-person
communication over your company’s wireless network. You don’t need
to memorize a number, and you don’t need to page someone and wait
for a response. Using voice commands, Vocera instantly connects you to
the people you need to reach, reducing phone tag, overhead paging,
and physically searching for a person. It also gives you the freedom to be
mobile, even when you are expecting an important call.
Your badge has a built-in speaker, microphone, and radio, plus a display
that shows caller ID and messages. Attachment options included with
the badge allow hands-free operation.
Vocera badges communicate through your in-house wireless local area
network (WLAN). This design permits people to reach you even in areas
where cellular phones experience what people call dead spots. Also,
since badges transmit and receive calls in a different frequency range
than cellular phones, you can use a Vocera badge in areas where cellular
phones are prohibited because of concerns about interference with
other equipment.
A central computer, the Vocera server, controls all badge communica-
tions. As you use your badge, you are prompted by the Genie, which is
the voice interface to the server. The Genie recognizes simple com-
mands in verb-noun format. For example:
“Call Charles Jones.”
“Record a message for Tech Support.”
“Block all calls.”
Because you use voice commands, the Vocera system is easy to learn, so
you can start using your badge immediately.