No voices in-game

[Zeph]

Title. All audio seems normal except for voices. Henry's mother and henry in the first scene sound like they're in a cave, and when i exit and talk to his father both him and henry have no voices. What the heck. Tried re-downloading and reinstalling, issue still there.

Wow. Any fixes?

[Beener Schnitzel]

Same here.

[geforth]

same problem

[Zeph]

Got it. It's USB Audio. Holy cow they did absolutely zero testing.

I fixed this by playing on my tv, which i use for couch gaming. Funny thing is, it's 2018 and they didn't put an option to select your monitor, so I had to put my tv as the primary monitor.

I'm speechless.

[Beener Schnitzel]

So for me, the issue was i was plugged into my speakers with normal headphone plug and when i switched it to bluetooth audio and turned my audio input to the headset it fixed it at that point.

So it's most likely your audio source, try configuring your audio source to stereo if it isn't surround or 5.1/7.1 if it is surround.

[Mrbill317]

I am playing this on the Xbox One with my brand new headphones and it also occurs. Cutscene audio does not work on Dolby Atmos or Windows Sonic and even regular stereo. Everything else is fine.

[thatguyfig]

If you are having this issue, it is most likely be because you are using a surround sound enabled sound card.

This is because the game will interpret your soundcard as 5.1 surround and try to use all outputs for audio. In game sounds are rendered in the L + R and it seems voice is generated in the Centre so you don't hear it through headphones.

What you have to do is install the necessary driver for your sound card and disable surround sound / 5.1 and enable stereo. This will force your computer to merge all surround outputs into just left and right and therefore hearing all available sounds without having 5.1 surround.

I don't believe there is anyway to do it in-game or via setting launch options so this is the best solution.

If your sound card doesn't have the support for a control interface, I think you can just do the same by going to Sound > Right-Click Playback device > Configure Speakers > Select Stereo

Peace x