1. A speech activated control system for controlling aerial vehicle components, comprising: a host processor having memory and positioned in communication with a database for storing speech recognition models; and speech actuated command program product at least partially stored in the memory of the host processor and including instructions that when executed by the host processor perform the operations of: forming a digitized user-speech template, thresholding bins of equalized portions of the digitized user-speech template representing a command annunciation to remove noise from within and around speech formants of the sampled speech data, developing a set of feature vectors representing energy of a frequency content of the digitized user-speech template to thereby determine a unique pattern identifying the command annunciation, applying a speech recognition engine to the set of feature vectors to form at least one speech recognition model associated with the command annunciation, associating an index with the at least one speech recognition model associated with the command annunciation, and storing the at least one speech recognition model and the associated index.