voices you hear first landing on EOS.

In one of the responses to Liam that you can choose, Ryder will say that he thinks he's still messed up over his father.  When Liam presses him about it a little, he says it's like he's still hearing him in his head (or something close to that).  I think the distorted voices are there to fit in with that particular response.

I don't think its a bug, it seems very intentional. Its probably what UpUp mentioned. That is the one dialogue I haven't done in that scene, so I was unaware of it. While emotional I think works for a variety of scenes I'm not sure I like it for telling a subordinate your problems.

I think it would be a pretty big leap to start implying something like Reaper indoctrination going on between Ryder and SAM.  As I implied, it's merely an indication that Ryder IS distracted and it takes a second for him/her to focus in on Liam as opposed to what other extraneous conversations and other noices might be going on around the bridge itself.  He/she is simply not at the top of his or her game.  It's understandable regardless of Ryder's actual response to Liam.  He/she has just woken up in a new galaxy, undergone a traumatic fall from space, lost his/her father, and been promoted to Pathfinder... not to mention having recently been dead for 12 seconds.

Hm it just sounds like modulated echo of what Suvi said, and what was said in the background... like Ryder is day dreaming for a while

Maybe it was meant like in ME1 there are the scary and sad sounds/jingles that play suddenly over what ever is playing at the moment in the game? But they didnt use it?
I dunno, kinda awesome find, I never thought about it much..

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Huh, I've always played through the family secrets quest line and I must be dense as I don't see the correlation. Partly probably because I can't make out anything in the sounds. Just listened to it again and still don't make out anything, so how nothing I can make out relates to the family secrets is beyond me. Anyone with good ears want to chime in on what you are hearing.

Could be, I don't pick out anyone voice, but I have terrible hearing.