In FFXII as you passed by you had random NPCs talking. though i don't remember if it was text only or there was voices in them (played it LOOOOONG time ago)
anyway i wasn't talking about any and all NPCs, just the NPCs related to quests and missions. and as for the language it self, it's a japanese game, and even after translation you can see a hint of japanese left behind that trace is also left in the auto-translate function. so why don't embrace it completly? at least with the voices