Communications apparatus for multimedia information

In a television telephone and other communications apparatus for multimedia information, only voice messages are provided as response messages in an answer recording mode in order to implement the curtailment of accumulation media, and at the same time, means is materialized to be able to execute transmission while confirming whether or not the image information is transferred to the accumulation media as intended by the transmission side without requiring any provision of special functions and operations. It is possible to effectuate transmission while confirming the image having the transmitted image of its own recorded thereon without any special functions and operations on the transmission side by arranging means wherein the voiced response message is transmitted at first by setting the transmission mode only for voices in an answer recording mode, and then, the received image information whose output from the dividing unit is made an input to the multiplexing unit as it is by setting the mode to the transmission mode identical to the reception mode.