Broadcast messages around the property. Deliver messages to user rather
than user having to seek message from a display
Speech synthesis or user recorded spoken messages
Sound prompts, tunes and annunciations e.g. doors opening and closing
Hand free communication to the whole property or between rooms, or
  multiple rooms
Automatic feedback prevention avoids howl between adjacent intercoms
Baby monitoring from any room to any room
Shutdown specific intercoms at night so that occupants are not disturbed
   
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