Originally Posted by
bearfoil 
Look for Voice recognition commands to the controls in the future.
I am currently working on a development intended to add speech recognition support to Level D flight simulators. Initially this is intended to be an instructor support facility.
I can categorically state that no one reading this forum would want speech recognition controlling anything at all flight critical. For one thing, any accent is likely to break the recognition completely or at best reduce the word-recognition success rates to pitiful numbers, and secondly stressed, faster speech results in the same reduction in accuracy.
I have previously worked on cockpit speech control control systems for aircraft such as the Eurofighter and in that case only non-flight critical systems were capable of speech control.
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" 
- GY