The Radio Shack chip was called the VCP200 by Motorola. They are no
longer available.
The TI chips can handle text to speech and speech recognition but you
would have to buy third party software for your application.
The Sensory Chips are a good option but require expensive development
kits and lots of custom coding.
The Phillips chips never really made it into production as far as I can
tell. It is not available.
Haven't read the paper but it looks like a custom designed solution.
My conclusion is that sensory is the best option but only if you plan
on doing production runs not if you're a hobbiest. Other than that,
there is no hobby level speech recognition IC on the market.
Ken
www.speechchips.com