Voice recognition texting is not any more distracting than a lot of other things we might do while driving. Lets say you have a couple of candy bars in the right seat that you want to devour. First you have to look over at the bag, take one out of the bag, unwrap it, and then eat it. Then you have dispose of the wrapper after you are done. Uh oh, you got chocolate on your fingers and a little bit around your lips. So you go looking for something to wipe it off with. Ah ha, there is an old napkin on the passenger side floor, time to reach over and get it.
To voice recognition text you need to find the number in your contacts, select it, press the voice recognition button, talk into it, check that it is correct, then press send. Done.
Maybe in 1990. Even my antique flip phone will look through contacts by voice command.
But, after you have pulled over.