Voice Recognition is one feature I'll pass on.. just like Bill Gates once hyped up really big and then quietly dropped it again, it's not as good as it first sounds. I think there would be too much Interference from/to human-to-human (or .mp3 to humans) communications.

But others here seem to want it, so maybe it ain't all that bad.

I might someday hook up a mic just to have the player auto-adjust volume in response to ambient noise levels in the vehicle. Sort of a speed-sensitive volume control, except better.

-ml