7. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for execution by a processing system, the computer-executable instructions for providing verbal control of a conference call in a conferencing system, the computer-readable medium comprising instructions for: bridging a plurality of conference call legs to form a bridged conference stream; evaluating the bridged conference stream with a speech recognition algorithm; determining if a 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 hot word is in the bridged conference stream, identifying a speaker of the hot word; and suppressing the hot word in the bridged stream prior to transmission of the bridged stream to conference participants.
7. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for execution by a processing system, the computer-executable instructions for providing verbal control of a conference call in a conferencing system, the computer-readable medium comprising instructions for: bridging a plurality of conference call legs to form a bridged conference stream; evaluating the bridged conference stream with a speech recognition algorithm; determining if a 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 hot word is in the bridged conference stream, identifying a speaker of the hot word; and suppressing the hot word in the bridged stream prior to transmission of the bridged stream to conference participants. 13. The computer-readable medium of claim 7 , wherein the instructions for determining if a hot word is identified in the bridged conference stream comprises instructions for comparing a word identified in the bridged conference stream with a database of hot words configured for the conferencing system.