It isn't replacing the 706. The 706 will still be manufactured. This
is an addition to the line, as it were.

I have the manual for the 7000, forget where it came from, but I
googled it anyway. It may well have lots of menus. The only things
that talk are S-meter, frequency, and mode. The menus don't
necessarily need to talk, so long as there's a beep somewhere to tell
what the default settings are and where the menu begins or ends. And
of course, it is computer programmable with the computer programming
thingy.