> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.plumvoice.com/dev/voicexml/tags/speak-tag.md).

# \<speak>

## \<speak> <a href="#speak" id="speak"></a>

The `<speak>` tag tells the text-to-speech engine to synthesize the specified text. You need not include this tag to have your text synthesized.

### Attributes

<table><thead><tr><th width="171.33333333333331">Name</th><th width="172">Data type<select><option value="1194ba484c3c41d592a469fb0af30415" label="String" color="blue"></option><option value="741e3664feab4266863268d8a4b1641c" label="Integer" color="blue"></option><option value="0af2b4c15b994c1ab9f345d9282f8cd4" label="Boolean" color="blue"></option></select></th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>xml:lang</td><td><span data-option="1194ba484c3c41d592a469fb0af30415">String</span></td><td>Can be set to “en_us” or “fr_fr”.</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Notes

Since all prompt text is synthesized, this tag is redundant and should never have to be used (except in the case of using the Realspeak TTS engine.

### Example

None

### Child Tags

[\<audio>](/dev/voicexml/tags/audio-tag.md), [\<break>](/dev/voicexml/tags/break-tag.md), [\<emphasis>](/dev/voicexml/tags/emphasis-tag.md), [\<enumerate>](/dev/voicexml/tags/enumerate-tag.md), [\<mark>](/dev/voicexml/tags/mark-tag.md), [\<paragraph>](/dev/voicexml/tags/paragraph-tag.md), [\<phoneme>](/dev/voicexml/tags/phoneme-tag.md), [\<prosody>](/dev/voicexml/tags/prosody-tag.md), [\<say-as>](/dev/voicexml/tags/say-as-tag.md), [\<sentence>](/dev/voicexml/tags/sentence-tag.md), [\<speak>](/dev/voicexml/tags/speak-tag.md), [\<sub>](/dev/voicexml/tags/sub-tag.md), [\<value>](/dev/voicexml/tags/value-tag.md), [\<voice>](/dev/voicexml/tags/voice-tag.md)

### Parent Tags

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


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