Is there a true handsfree phone? a phone that can dial by itself by speech?

Question

can a phone dial without touching the actual phone?

can it send a text message ?

Answer 1

I don't know about texting, but voice activated calling's been available for years.  That's for predefined numbers though (e.g. "home" = 0123 45678), I don't know anything that would allow you to speak the number itself.