One important point about voice recognition is in the short term its OK if its slower and harder to use than superior technologies, as long as everyone knows it costs a lot of money.

Once that fad aspect blows over, then usage plummets and its forgotten. See Kinect, or the nintendo power glove, or qr-codes, or google glass, or the cue cat, or a zillion other examples that are in, or now entering, 8-track-hood.