(education) A school event where prizes are given out to pupils, and speeches are made by guest speakers.

(computing) The function of a front-end software system which processes input in the form of spoken language into a sequence of phonemes or characters, or into electronic commands for a computing system.

plural of disfluency

(psychology) speech that is pressured, as in pressure of speech

(psychology, psychiatry) a proclivity to speak with rapidity and intensity without apparent motivation, commonly seen as a marker for a manic episode of bipolar disorder

plural of speech act

An early phonetic alphabet, devised by Alexander Melville Bell in 1867.

plural of opening speech

(law) In adversarial legal systems, a statement made by either party at the beginning of a trial or comparable factfinding proceeding, in which that party lays out their case, generally including the points of fact that they intend to demonstrate and to some degree indicating the rhetorical arguments for why they should prevail.

A speech bubble.