Fallout 4 Missing Player Voice Audio

[Mindshaker]

I hope this is the right place to ask . . .

I have searched the internet for the answer, but I have found only others with the same problem and no fix.

My players voice has disappeared. When I enter into dialogue with NPCs Nora bobs her head like she is talking but her lips don't move and no sound comes out. When the NPC responds, their lips move and their sound works fine. All other sounds in the game work fine.

The little information I found on the internet led me to changing the language to French and back to English, and removing garbage information from the fallout4.ini file. Neither had any effect.

This is my second playthrough. It happened on the first playthrough and I ignored it. Now for some strange reason it is bothering me.

I am hoping someone knows of a way to reset the audio or some other fix.

Please Help . . .

[ISDCC]

Originally posted by Mindshaker:

I hope this is the right place to ask . . .

I have searched the internet for the answer, but I have found only others with the same problem and no fix.

My players voice has disappeared. When I enter into dialogue with NPCs Nora bobs her head like she is talking but her lips don't move and no sound comes out. When the NPC responds, their lips move and their sound works fine. All other sounds in the game work fine.

The little information I found on the internet led me to changing the language to French and back to English, and removing garbage information from the fallout4.ini file. Neither had any effect.

This is my second playthrough. It happened on the first playthrough and I ignored it. Now for some strange reason it is bothering me.

I am hoping someone knows of a way to reset the audio or some other fix.

Please Help . . .

have you found how to fix this? i have the same problem rn, every NPC in my game is muted, all other sounds are good but every npc voice are off or something

[CptClouds]

ok so i had a similar issue to that described here. i used a voice changing mod then realized it wasnt meshing well so i uninstalled it. afterwards a majority of voice lines were like they were using f4z roh doh, silent as can be. i took the suggestion that i saw of deleting voices.bsa and verifying. that alone didnt fix it. i thought about the other suggestion that it was the .ini and something in it was broken. so i deleted it. starting the game auto generates a new fallout4.ini file and my voices were back to the way they should be

[Midnight]

Originally posted by CptClouds:

i thought about the other suggestion that it was the .ini and something in it was broken. so i deleted it. starting the game auto generates a new fallout4.ini file and my voices were back to the way they should be

This worked for me, thank you.

[Iron Knights]

Got MODS ?
Otherwise need to know your PC Audio setup. HDMI through monitor, MB to Speakers or Headphones ? What type of headphones ?

[Thann Solaar]

To those still having this issue:

This happened to me at least once on every playthrough, and every time the symptoms are the same:

1- Can't hear the player's voice
2- Can't hear the player's steps when running (both in or out of power armor)
3- Can't hear player's heavy breathing when running at low AP
4- ??? (possibly other missing sounds I never noticed)

...and every time, the cause (and fix) was simple: The game thinks you're submerged underwater. Just find a body of water, submerge yourself *completely*, and get back out of the water.

[sinacorleon]

hi , the first time i had this problem it was when i tried to have conversation with a npc half in water . tried to reloading my game are even a earlier save file . i got everything but results.
soo , the water solution work for me but in other area like a sea and geting deep underwater got the thing work again

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Thann Solaar:

To those still having this issue:

This happened to me at least once on every playthrough, and every time the symptoms are the same:

1- Can't hear the player's voice
2- Can't hear the player's steps when running (both in or out of power armor)
3- Can't hear player's heavy breathing when running at low AP
4- ??? (possibly other missing sounds I never noticed)

...and every time, the cause (and fix) was simple: The game thinks you're submerged underwater. Just find a body of water, submerge yourself *completely*, and get back out of the water.

There is another possible scenario. User had OS Audio set to 5.1
Can't hear the player voice because it's coming out of the Center Channel.
Set the OS Audio back to Stereo 2.1 if not actually using proper 5.1
Headphones never use 5.1, they use Stereo. They might have a way to apply Virtual 5.1; but that is not the same.

[Negative Ramos]

Originally posted by misterchow05:

Try to submerge into water and walk out.

2 and a half years later and this worked for me! Thank you!

[808]

Originally posted by Thann Solaar:

To those still having this issue:

This happened to me at least once on every playthrough, and every time the symptoms are the same:

1- Can't hear the player's voice
2- Can't hear the player's steps when running (both in or out of power armor)
3- Can't hear player's heavy breathing when running at low AP
4- ??? (possibly other missing sounds I never noticed)

...and every time, the cause (and fix) was simple: The game thinks you're submerged underwater. Just find a body of water, submerge yourself *completely*, and get back out of the water.

worked

[airabas69]

For me it was the Mod Silent Protagonist ( https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/20097 ) which i got with the Roland mod companion. when i disabled these my voice was back.

[commander.phaethon]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Originally posted by Thann Solaar:

To those still having this issue:

This happened to me at least once on every playthrough, and every time the symptoms are the same:

1- Can't hear the player's voice
2- Can't hear the player's steps when running (both in or out of power armor)
3- Can't hear player's heavy breathing when running at low AP
4- ??? (possibly other missing sounds I never noticed)

...and every time, the cause (and fix) was simple: The game thinks you're submerged underwater. Just find a body of water, submerge yourself *completely*, and get back out of the water.

There is another possible scenario. User had OS Audio set to 5.1
Can't hear the player voice because it's coming out of the Center Channel.
Set the OS Audio back to Stereo 2.1 if not actually using proper 5.1
Headphones never use 5.1, they use Stereo. They might have a way to apply Virtual 5.1; but that is not the same.

And... THIS was my issue. lol Thanks gamer, you're the best.

[alcatel700]

Originally posted by ISDCC:

Originally posted by Karma:

Your problem is the .ini and the sResourceDataDirsFinal= commmand line.

what do you mean with this? i have the same issue

the fallout4.ini is the problem,m delete it and launch the game again so that another copy is created

[Decomane]

For me, literally just saving, quitting the game, starting it up again, and continuing from where I left off fixes it. I wonder what I should do to fix it permanently though.

[Wasteland Project]

You probably switched languages. One of the .ini files it remained with a different language.
There are two Fallout4.ini, one is in the Documents folder, the other is in the game folder, the language must be the same in both.
If you use Vortex there a third one and it is located in AppData/Roaming/Vortex/Fallout 4/profiles

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Again if you use a 2 or 2.1 Speaker setup or Headphones, make sure the playback devices are set to Stereo, nothing else. If they are set to surround sound of any kind, the Speech Audio is most likely going to be dedicated to the Center Channel, which you do not have. Now if you have a USB Headset with a Stereo vs Surround toggle, that is fine as all this does is take Stereo and force it into Virtual Surround Sound Mode.