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Speakable Schema

Entry #399 / 700 · Chapter 8 · 8.3 Mobile-first indexing, touch and voice · Read in Chinese →
In one sentence

Markup that identifies the passage on a page best suited to being read aloud by an assistant, combined with writing that survives being heard rather than seen.

Analogy Mental model

Highlighting the three most quotable sentences in a long speech so a presenter can pick it up and read it cleanly.

In practice What you actually do

For news and reference pages, designate a summary of roughly forty to fifty words, which takes twenty to thirty seconds to speak. Write so the passage stands alone: no references to the figure below or the table above, since a listener cannot follow a visual pointer.

Where people get burned Pitfalls

That self-contained paragraph is also the block an AI assistant is most likely to quote verbatim. Writing one deliberately serves both audiences with a single piece of work.

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