“My New Voice” is a chamber opera in progress. The piece tells the story of Trevor, a character with motor neuron disease, who uses a TTS synthesizer to speak. In this session, the presenters discuss their experience as users of speech technology, show clips from the performance, and generalize learned information to broader industry applicability. Their conclusions demonstrate that such niche applications can provide both practical and deep insights into the tools, capabilities, interfaces, and design constraints of speech technology.