---
title: literal
framework: appkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Type Property
path: appkit/nsspeechsynthesizer/speechpropertykey/mode/literal
---

# literal

Indicates that each digit or character is spoken literally (so that 12 is spoken as “one, two”, or the word “cat” is spoken as “C A T”).

## Declaration

```swift
static let literal: NSSpeechSynthesizer.SpeechPropertyKey.Mode
```

## See Also

### Type Properties

- [normal](appkit/nsspeechsynthesizer/speechpropertykey/mode/normal.md)
- [phoneme](appkit/nsspeechsynthesizer/speechpropertykey/mode/phoneme.md)
- [text](appkit/nsspeechsynthesizer/speechpropertykey/mode/text.md)