diff --git a/tts_service/src/endpoints/speak.rs b/tts_service/src/endpoints/speak.rs
index 76bc5fa690..0ddacef6e0 100644
--- a/tts_service/src/endpoints/speak.rs
+++ b/tts_service/src/endpoints/speak.rs
@@ -52,12 +52,32 @@ pub async fn post_speak(request: HttpRequest,
         .body("Request has empty text."));
   }
 
-  // NB: Actually, we want the X-Forwarded-For IP address, since otherwise
-  // we get the load balancer.
-  let ip_address = request.connection_info()
-      .remote()
-      .unwrap_or("")
-      .to_string();
+  let ip_address = match request.headers().get(HeaderName::from_static("x-voder-proxy-for")) {
+    Some(ip_address) => {
+      // Unfortunately the upstream Rust proxy is replacing the `forwarded` and `x-forwarded-for`
+      // headers, so we populate this custom header as a workaround.
+      info!("Proxied IP address: {:?}", ip_address);
+      ip_address.to_str()
+          .unwrap_or("")
+          .to_string()
+    },
+    None => {
+      // If we're running without the upstream Rust proxy, we can grab 'x-forarded-for', which is
+      // populated by the Digital Ocean load balancer.
+      let ip_address_and_port = request.connection_info()
+          .remote()
+          .unwrap_or("")
+          .to_string();
+      let ip_address = ip_address_and_port.split(":")
+          .collect::<Vec<&str>>()
+          .get(0)
+          .copied()
+          .unwrap_or("")
+          .to_string();
+      info!("Forwarded IP address: {}", &ip_address);
+      ip_address
+    },
+  };
 
   match request.headers().get(HeaderName::from_static("x-forwarded-for")) {
     Some(header_value) => {
diff --git a/tts_service/src/endpoints/speak_with_spectrogram.rs b/tts_service/src/endpoints/speak_with_spectrogram.rs
index 5e24c2ea8f..cdd9c370d8 100644
--- a/tts_service/src/endpoints/speak_with_spectrogram.rs
+++ b/tts_service/src/endpoints/speak_with_spectrogram.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use actix_web::http::{StatusCode, header};
+use actix_web::http::{StatusCode, header, HeaderName, HeaderValue};
 use actix_web::web::{
   Data,
   Json,
@@ -72,16 +72,32 @@ pub async fn post_speak_with_spectrogram(request: HttpRequest,
         .body("Request has empty text.")));
   }
 
-  for (k, v) in request.headers().iter() {
-    info!("Header: {:?} = {:?}", k, v);
-  }
-
-  // NB: Actually, we want the X-Forwarded-For IP address, since otherwise
-  // we get the load balancer.
-  let ip_address = request.connection_info()
-      .remote()
-      .unwrap_or("")
-      .to_string();
+  let ip_address = match request.headers().get(HeaderName::from_static("x-voder-proxy-for")) {
+    Some(ip_address) => {
+      // Unfortunately the upstream Rust proxy is replacing the `forwarded` and `x-forwarded-for`
+      // headers, so we populate this custom header as a workaround.
+      info!("Proxied IP address: {:?}", ip_address);
+      ip_address.to_str()
+          .unwrap_or("")
+          .to_string()
+    },
+    None => {
+      // If we're running without the upstream Rust proxy, we can grab 'x-forarded-for', which is
+      // populated by the Digital Ocean load balancer.
+      let ip_address_and_port = request.connection_info()
+          .remote()
+          .unwrap_or("")
+          .to_string();
+      let ip_address = ip_address_and_port.split(":")
+          .collect::<Vec<&str>>()
+          .get(0)
+          .copied()
+          .unwrap_or("")
+          .to_string();
+      info!("Forwarded IP address: {}", &ip_address);
+      ip_address
+    },
+  };
 
   let sentence_record = NewSentence {
     sentence: text.clone(),