When people talk to me there mouths move but no sound the announcer of the arena is silent. has this happened to anybody else?

The only odd thing with my audio was with the peasants. They would switch accents in between sentences.

That happened to me before, was talking to a homeless nord guy in bruma and his accent just changed inbetween sentences

Not a major problem though

the accent on beggars changes because there are only a few versions of the "thank ye kind sir" and "just one coin" clips. so everybody has teh same one except for women, argonians and khajiits. has anyone noticed any orc beggars????

That's no glitch, just laziness. They voiced the dialogue for beggars twice, once in a beggar voice and once in the standard race voice. They didn't bother to fix it up, so the two voices are conflicting.

This is no glitch but an audio comment on Oblivion modding ... I love that there is a Oblivion Voice Actors website where people will say lines for your newly modded NPCs for free. I intend to make use of that later. I guess if you felt like it you could fix up and redo these peasants in a mod form ... would be a big job though if they all switch accents like that.

it could be a glitch or it could mabye be your sound card