Portable electronic device, method of controlling the device and recording medium for recording data used by the device

摘要

A portable electronic device that can be connected to a host machine and can be used alone as an ancillary machine to be used as a remote control unit, and allowing even visually impaired users to distinguish remote control operation information aurally is configured so that a remote control program and frequency division program are downloaded from a CD-ROM which is the recording medium to a program memory of the portable electronic device, and remote control voice data is also downloaded to a non-volatile memory of the device. Additionally, remote control voice data corresponding to operation items when the portable electronic device is used as a remote control unit undergoes frequency division, and sounds which allow the operation items to be distinguished, are generated from a speaker of the portable electronic device.