listening vs speech

listening

noun
  • Skill or ability of perceiving spoken language. 

  • Action of the verb listening 

  • An educational exercise involving listening 

adj
  • Of an action that is performed with caution and attention to sounds. 

  • Of something that is used in order to hear or to improve the ability to hear. 

  • Of something or someone that listens. 

speech

noun
  • The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate. 

  • A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person. 

  • Language used orally, rather than in writing. 

  • An utterance that is quoted; see direct speech, reported speech 

  • Public talk, news, gossip, rumour. 

  • The act of speaking, a certain style of it. 

  • A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language. 

verb
  • To make a speech; to harangue. 

How often have the words listening and speech occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )