1. A method for providing verbal control of a conference call in a conferencing system, comprising: bridging a plurality of conference call legs to form a bridged conference stream in the conferencing system; evaluating the bridged conference stream with a speech recognition algorithm; determining if a first hot word is identified in the bridged conference stream, wherein at least a caller name is used to populate a voice template for identifying the first hot word; responsive to determining the first hot word is in the bridged conference stream, invoking a conference feature associated with the first hot word; and suppressing the first hot word in the bridged stream prior to transmission of the bridged stream to conference participants.