The recent introduction of miniatures with sounds attached to them was probably welcomed by many, unfortunately I am not one of them.
Worse yet, their sound volume is controlled by Effects volume instead of Dialog volume, meaning that in order to ignore them, one must turn off all the effects that are useful in playing the game instead of just turning off the dialog volume.
I consider it a bug that these miniature bleeps and bobbles that go on constantly and annoyingly are not controlled by the Dialog volume, which already controls all the inane, redundant, and annoying conversations that we have all heard hundreds of times and don’t mind turning off.
A better solution would be adding the ability to block these sounds individually, possibly by an option on the miniatures page of the character sheet, or as a context menu option on the miniatures themselves.
pf