Definition of speech-making:
(n) :
(uncountable) The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.
(n) :
(uncountable) The act of speaking, a certain style of it.
(n) :
(countable) A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.
(n) :
(uncountable) Language used orally, rather than in writing.
(n) :
(uncountable) Public talk, news, gossip, rumour.
(n) :
(countable) A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language.