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# Speakable

**Definition:** Speakable is a schema.org property (with the SpeakableSpecification type) that identifies, by CSS selector or XPath, which parts of a page are best suited to be read aloud or quoted verbatim — typically a headline and a short summary. It was introduced for voice assistants and remains the most direct way to tell a machine which passage is the answer.

Google documents `speakable` as a beta feature for news publishers on Google Assistant, and it is not a confirmed ranking or citation signal for AI answer features. It is nonetheless cheap, harmless and precise: it points at the exact element that contains your direct answer.

Every guide on this site marks its short-answer block with `data-speakable="short-answer"` and references that selector from the `TechArticle` JSON-LD:

```json
"speakable": {
  "@type": "SpeakableSpecification",
  "cssSelector": ["[data-speakable='short-answer']", "[data-speakable='headline']"]
}
```

## Related guides

- [Structured data for AI answers: the schema.org types that matter](https://citable.wiki/guides/structured-data-for-ai-answers)

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Source: https://citable.wiki/glossary/speakable