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speakable

Indicates sections of a Web page that are particularly 'speakable' in the sense of being highlighted as being especially appropriate for text-to-speech conversion. Other sections of a page may also be usefully spoken in particular circumstances; the 'speakable' property serves to indicate the parts most likely to be generally useful for speech.

The speakable property can be repeated an arbitrary number of times, with three kinds of possible 'content-locator' values:

1.) id-value URL references - uses id-value of an element in the page being annotated. The simplest use of speakable has (potentially relative) URL values, referencing identified sections of the document concerned.

2.) CSS Selectors - addresses content in the annotated page, e.g. via class attribute. Use the cssSelector property.

3.) XPaths - addresses content via XPaths (assuming an XML view of the content). Use the xpath property.

For more sophisticated markup of speakable sections beyond simple ID references, either CSS selectors or XPath expressions to pick out document section(s) as speakable. For this we define a supporting type, SpeakableSpecification which is defined to be a possible value of the speakable property.

Value
SpeakableSpecification or URL
Used on
Article and WebPage
Source
Schema.org 30.1

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An Article or a WebPage can have a speakable, and its value is a SpeakableSpecification or a URL.

Used on

2 types have a speakable, and so does every type that descends from them.

Its value

Its value is one of these 2 types.

Where this comes from

Quoted from Schema.org, and credited. Nothing in this definition is written by us.

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    Version 30.116 September 2026
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  4. License
    CC BY-SA 3.0Free to copy and adapt, with credit, under the same licence
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Its definition is free to reuse, with credit to Schema.org. The same property is here as data, for programs and for language models.

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