Glossary
Speakable Schema
A schema.org property that flags which parts of a page are best suited to be read aloud by voice assistants.
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SpeakableSpecification is added inside an Article or WebPage schema block. It contains a list of CSS selectors (or XPath expressions) pointing to the sections of the page that a voice assistant should prefer when reading aloud.
Does Speakable affect AI search beyond voice?
Indirectly. Marking specific elements as speakable also signals to text-based AI engines that those passages are well-formed standalone answers, and they are the ones most likely to be quoted.
What selectors should you mark speakable?
The article H1, the snippet answer paragraph, and any H2 that frames a direct question. Cite Hustle defaults to ["h1", "h2", ".article-intro"].
Part of the Cite Hustle GEO glossary: definitions for generative engine optimization and AI search. See how it fits the bigger picture in the GEO methodology.