To provide an electronic appliance capable of realizing both reduction of a load on a user in operating an appliance and safety of information.
A CPU 201 can perform speech recognition of an unspecified person which performs speech recognition to the unspecified person concerning a previously fixed number of words and the speech recognition of a specified person which performs speech recognition to the specified person based on a previously registered voice data. In the case of inputting voice as normal auxiliary operation, an operation instruction is authenticated by the speech recognition of the unspecified person and in the case of performing operation permitted to only the specified person, the operation instruction is authenticated by the speech recognition of the specified person.