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If you're using other mods at the same time, I'd try doing the binary search thing
turn them off, see if the problem goes away, if so, turn half of them off, see if the problem goes away, then of the problematic half, try turning half of that off, etc.
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It sounds like Bethesda says that something similar can happen in their games if you have a 5.1 configuration with nothing hooked up to some of the speakers.
I vaguely recall some bug on very old versions of Proton, something with the sound subsystem, that caused speech to not show up in some Bethesda game, though I think it was a problem that showed up after a while, not always not present from the start of the game. Trying to deal with that was what initially got me to use Proton GE. I doubt that it's what's going on here, but you could try switching Proton versions.
I don't have Fallout 4 installed at the moment, but Skyrim has separate volume sliders in the settings for voice and music, so I assume Fallout 4 does too. You might check that.
Just a clean, no-mods install here, and already checked the volume sliders in-game. I did try switching to wine 11.4 and got some error about failing to inject a dll... I'll try switching Proton versions and see what happens.
I went back to GE Proton 10-34 and the sound came in! Thanks for the suggestion.
I had an issue with no audio, I followed step 6 of this to get sound working, you could check and see if that works