[I replied this to Gary already, but forgot to Cc port-i386]

Quoting Gary Henderson,

> The subject says it all. Why do I want them ? So linux doom has sound of
> course ! Plus there are a few binary-only linux distributions appearing, such
> as speech recognition and synthesis packages that I would like to play with.

I know that FreeBSD uses the Voxware drivers, so if you want to use them with
NetBSD, porting should be easy. I am also working on making Linux binaries
work with the NetBSD sound drivers, but I don't think it will be in 1.1 yet.

- Frank