1. A verbo-manual gesture interface system, comprising: a manipulandum adapted to be movable according to a multi-stroke manual gesture imparted by a user, the multi-stroke manual gesture comprising a plurality of characteristic manual strokes; a sensor adapted to detect each of the plurality of characteristic manual strokes within the multi-stroke manual gesture imparted to the manipulandum and to generate a sensor signal representing the timing of each of the plurality of characteristic manual strokes within the multi stroke manual gesture; a microphone adapted to detect a spoken phrase uttered by the user, the spoken phrase including a plurality of uttered words spoken by the user and to generate an utterance signal representing the timing of each of the plurality of uttered words within the spoken phrase; and a control system adapted to receive the generated sensor signal and the generated utterance signal and to transmit a command signal to at least one electronic device, the command signal being dependent, at least in part, upon a predetermined temporal relationship between a particular one of the plurality of characteristic manual strokes within the multi-stroke manual gesture and a particular one of the plurality of uttered words within the spoken phrase, wherein the predetermined temporal relationship requires that the particular one of the plurality of characteristic manual strokes within the multi-stroke manual gesture is imparted with substantial simultaneity with the particular one of the plurality of uttered word within the spoken phrase.