npc's with No Voice!

Rahdintimelord · May 2020

I have an audio issue that I really don't know how to fix, Audio in the game is fine and working except in west skyrim.
when doing the new quests, I hear the backgrounds sound , but the npc's have no voice ! having to read the words which is no fun at all! Audio is normal in every other part of the game and npc's are heard everywhere else. So I think it might be a bug of some sort?

TheImperfect · May 2020

I had the same thing with one npc and also ventriloquist npcs whose mouths don't move when they are talking.

Rahdintimelord · May 2020

I am still having this issue above, and I think it must be a bug because NPC's can be heard talking every where else, in the game. Does anyone have any idea?

Skorro · May 2020

Wasn't there an article saying they were shipping without some voice acting due to time constraints and the covid issue? I can't go check the news at the mo for the exact article though so may be wrong

Dusk_Coven · May 2020

I'm in Northern Elsweyr for the first time and I'm getting the same. Like the world boss questgiver having no voiceover for the necromancer boss.
They can blame Greymoor on Covid but what about Elsweyr?

Technica · May 2020

I had this occur with Overseer Urlvar. I exited the dialogue and started again - this fixed it

Rahdintimelord · May 2020

I have restarted my game and addons many times, but still the same , I hope they get this fixed , because it sucks . I can be patient if I know they are working on it.

Glenmorils · June 2020

This happened to me twice recently. Currently in the Valley of the Blades quest. Abnur Tharn will have subtitles but no voice, and when I talk to him he doesn’t move his mouth. Everyone else is talking, though.

Yelloman · June 2020

it's a new bug since greymoore.
it appears randomly on any npc. sometimes there is no audio, sometimes no lip movement, sometimes both.
if you go through any loading screen (relog or zone change) and talk to the same npc it acts normal again.
I don't know if /reloadui also works, didn't test that yet.

ZaroktheImmortal · June 2020

I've had this issue in pretty much any zone I've been in of late it doesn't happen all the time but I'll usually get people here and there with no voice or they'll talk but lips won't move or they won't move their lips or have any sound.

Dusk_Coven · June 2020

Has ZOS made an official statement about this?
I have an awful feeling they did a rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul move and this is a symptom of something in the game that suffered so that they could slap a band-aid somewhere else.

@ZOS_GinaBruno

DamnitDawn · June 2020

Yep I am having the same issue, for instance in the Eyevea Mages Guild final step in the questline, you're in the Mages Guild on Eyevea and Sheogorath is asking you to choose between curing Valaste and getting the Folium Discognitum; but when Uncle Sheo is talking his mouth isn't moving, instead Haskill's mouth moves and the voice sounds like it's coming from Haskill as well.
I am also having a problem with many rando NPCs and merchants - the speak but their mouths don't move, or some voices are not heard at all.
Another specific example, in the Fighters Guild last part of the Questline, every person on the council has a line in the Earth Forge, you can hear them all except Borogilmith.

darbiirue · July 2020

Glad I finally found this post. Yeah I just experienced this with Provost Varuni Arvel in Clockwork City and it was actually so unsettling... Hopefully they squash this bug.

I did try /reloadui, and that did not fix the problem. However, after following her orders and doing the next step, I came back out of a room and she was speaking again as described above.

Gylzyn · August 2020

Just wanted to bump this because I am still getting instances of NPCs where their voice is missing or you get voice but no lip sync, etc.

Ratinira · August 2020

1. Yesterday I logged in in Windhelm near outfit station. There is a male bard there. But suddenly I hear a female singing. Bard was playing but no lip movement.
Female stopped singing and then started again but that was a mixture of all songs - like 2-3 lines from each separated with several second of "music" that sounded just like "ding" - "ding" - "ding".
2. I was in Black Reach tavern when something happened with bard. Sounded like an old record being stuck. Sound that is interrapting every second, I couldnt even understand is she was trying to repeat the same line or different. Just a horrible cacophony of sounds. I left tavern but found that the problem is with all sounds - like npc talking.

Relogging solved problem both times, but its the first time I heard them. And within three days

Something is going very wrong with audio files since Greymoor...

Oh, I also run into a quest in Elsewhere with two NPC - unconscious male and female. Though during dialog male was looking at me and speaking (lips movement) with female voice and female NPC was just silently gesticulating...

Nairinhe · August 2020

It's everywhere since Greymoor dropped, although doesn't happen very often.
Maybe that's the thing that can silence Stuga?

Crimsonwolf666 · August 2020

I get this randomly in every zone now. Some NPCs don't have a voice, others have the voice over but there mouth isn't moving and a mixture there of. This was a problem I noticed with the release of Elsweyr, but since Greymoor came out, it has spread all over Tamriel with ALL different quests. Even main storyline quests with Molag Bal lose voices, get weird movement animations, and/or no mouth moving.

viperroos · January 2023

I am having the same issue, with me NO NPC ever talks, it does not matter what zone I am playing. Is there a way I can fix this?