18. The system of claim 16 , wherein the application server determines the speaker is authorized to invoke the conference feature.
16. A system, comprising: a database that specifies privileges of respective conference participants; a media server adapted to terminate a conference leg with each of a plurality of terminal devices of the participants, evaluate a conference stream with a speech recognition algorithm, determine a hot word is included in the conference stream, and identify a speaker of the hot word, wherein the hot word is associated with a conference feature, wherein the media server suppresses the hot word in the conference stream prior to transmission of the conference stream to the conference participants, wherein at least a caller name is used to populate a voice template for identifying the hot word; and an application server communicatively coupled with the media server and adapted to provide control information to the media server for managing the conference call, wherein the application server is notified of the hot word and the speaker, and wherein the application server interrogates the database to determine if the speaker is authorized to invoke the conference feature.