edited because i've fixed my problem and wanted to put this here so other people can use my solution
since the problem is a specific kind of output device not working the workaround i use is to set the game's output to any random extra outputs your system has like your monitor's speakers or an unused audio port
go into something like OBS and create a new scene with an audio source that's linked to whatever you've set choicer voicer to output to
then right click the output volume bar to go into advanced audio properties and set audio monitoring to either monitor only or monitor and output and then you can hear everything