Patent ID: 7779357

Claim:
A hand-held electronic device comprising: a media database that stores media content; a display device that is capable of visually displaying a user interface that enables a user to interact with the hand-held electronic device, the user interface presenting at least one menu, the at least one menu having a plurality of menu items; a user input device capable of receiving a user input pertaining to a selection of at least one of the menu items in the at least one menu; a memory, wherein the memory stores media files, each media file having an audio tag containing a pointer to an associated audio cue; a user interface control module that, in response to the user input pertaining to a selection of the at least one menu item in the at least one menu receives a manually entered text string corresponding to the at least one menu item, wherein the manually entered text string does not replace a text string currently stored on the hand-held electronic device, and causes the manually entered text string to be passed to a host computer, wherein the host computer converts the manually entered text string to a corresponding audio cue and passes the corresponding audio cue back to the hand-held electronic device.