# \<say-as>

## \<say-as> <a href="#say-as" id="say-as"></a>

`<say-as>` tags provide contextual hints to the TTS engine about how text should be pronounced.

### Attributes

<table><thead><tr><th width="170.33333333333331">Name</th><th width="148">Data type<select><option value="e758a170d3f04eba8ab30ac555dce815" label="String" color="blue"></option><option value="543cd092528e4fae9443b2da5e6253b0" label="Integer" color="blue"></option><option value="4a62e103fe0742fea7e816a1e06164dc" label="Boolean" color="blue"></option></select></th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>type</td><td><span data-option="e758a170d3f04eba8ab30ac555dce815">String</span></td><td>Specifies the contextual hint. See <a href="../../developer-reference/tts-engine-characteristics">TTS Engine Characteristics</a> to view the say-as tag types.</td></tr><tr><td>interpret-as</td><td><span data-option="e758a170d3f04eba8ab30ac555dce815">String</span></td><td><p>Indicates the content type of the contained text construct (e.g. number, date, time, currency).</p><p></p><p>This attribute is redundant, however, as the &#x3C;say-as> tag types can do this as well.</p></td></tr><tr><td>format</td><td><span data-option="e758a170d3f04eba8ab30ac555dce815">String</span></td><td><p>Gives hints on the precise formatting of the contained text for content types that may have ambiguous formats (e.g. cardinal, ordinal, and digits (for number) and dmy, md, my, and ym (for date)).</p><p></p><p>This attribute is redundant, however, as the &#x3C;say-as> tag types can do this as well.</p></td></tr><tr><td>sub</td><td></td><td>This attribute is not supported.</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Notes

None

### Example

```markup
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<vxml version="2.0">
  <form>
    <block>
      <prompt>
        Acronym is spelled:
        <say-as type="acronym">
          acronym
        </say-as>
      </prompt>
    </block>
  </form>
</vxml>
```

The output of the above script would be:

> Computer: Acronym is spelled: A-C-R-O-N-Y-M.

### Child Tags

[\<value>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/value-tag)&#x20;

### Parent Tags

[\<audio>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/audio-tag), [\<emphasis>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/emphasis-tag), [\<enumerate>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/enumerate-tag), [\<foreach>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/foreach-tag), [\<paragraph>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/paragraph-tag), [\<prompt>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/prompt-tag), [\<prosody>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/prosody-tag), [\<sentence>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/sentence-tag), [\<speak>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/speak-tag), [\<voice>](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/voice-tag)