diff --git a/backend/src/common/body-parsers.spec.ts b/backend/src/common/body-parsers.spec.ts
index ecde076..d64b859 100644
--- a/backend/src/common/body-parsers.spec.ts
+++ b/backend/src/common/body-parsers.spec.ts
@@ -74,6 +74,20 @@ describe('createJsonBodyParser', () => {
     expect((res.body as ProbeBody).keys).toBe(1);
   });
 
+  it('widens the limit for the spellings Express itself accepts', async () => {
+    // Express routes case-insensitively and ignores a trailing slash by default, so these
+    // all reach the voice controller. Any of them taking the 100 kb parser would 413 a
+    // real recording and read as a broken microphone.
+    for (const path of [
+      '/api/voice/extract/',
+      '/API/Voice/Extract',
+      '/api/Voice/extract/',
+    ]) {
+      const res = await request(buildApp()).post(path).send(bodyOfKb(300));
+      expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    }
+  });
+
   it('does not widen the limit for a path that merely looks similar', async () => {
     for (const path of [
       '/api/voice/extract/extra',
diff --git a/backend/src/common/body-parsers.ts b/backend/src/common/body-parsers.ts
index c845d91..97278da 100644
--- a/backend/src/common/body-parsers.ts
+++ b/backend/src/common/body-parsers.ts
@@ -24,12 +24,22 @@ export const VOICE_BODY_LIMIT = '10mb';
  * the endpoint rejected every real recording with a 500. One explicit branch has no such
  * coupling, and is covered by body-parsers.spec.ts.
  */
+/**
+ * Express routes case-insensitively and ignores a trailing slash unless configured
+ * otherwise, so `/API/Voice/Extract/` reaches the same controller. Matching only the
+ * canonical spelling would hand those requests the 100 kb parser and 413 every real
+ * recording — a failure that looks like a broken microphone, not a routing detail.
+ */
+function isVoiceExtractPath(path: string): boolean {
+  return path.toLowerCase().replace(/\/+$/, '') === VOICE_EXTRACT_PATH;
+}
+
 export function createJsonBodyParser(): RequestHandler {
   const voiceParser = json({ limit: VOICE_BODY_LIMIT });
   const defaultParser = json();
 
   return (req: Request, res: Response, next: NextFunction) =>
-    req.path === VOICE_EXTRACT_PATH
+    isVoiceExtractPath(req.path)
       ? voiceParser(req, res, next)
       : defaultParser(req, res, next);
 }