The phrase "a couple speeches" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct form would be "a couple of speeches." You can use it when referring to two or a few speeches in a casual context.
Example: "I have to prepare a couple of speeches for the upcoming conference."
Alternatives: "a few speeches" or "two speeches."
I did a couple of speeches for them, I do speeches for other people.
"I think it's targeted, it's planned, and obviously it comes after a couple of speeches by Morsi where he made very clear threats," said Morayef Last Sunday, Morsi gave a speech and published a series of tweets in which he promised to take necessary measures against opposition figures who incited what he called violence and rioting.
"They made a couple of speeches," Mr. Silver said.
At a recent performance, the pacing seemed off and a couple of speeches were a bit overblown, but the play's excellence was undeniable.
He has still not spoken in the main chamber since his arrest, but has made a couple of speeches in committee meetings and tabled some written questions.
By 1989, when Mr. Reagan accepted $2 million to give a couple of speeches in Japan, tarnishing the office he had held, the illusion was shattered.
It didn't happen but Purnell as culture secretary back then made a couple of speeches conspicuously failing to rule out so-called "top-slicing".
It is either naïve or arrogant in the extreme to imagine that a couple of speeches can shift the comforting simplicities produced by years of anti-European propaganda.
Bernanke, who remains a member in good standing of the academic economists' club, gave a couple of speeches along these lines, but it wasn't clear whether his heart was really in it.
I was surprised, coming back on the plane" — from Montana, where Hillary had given a couple of speeches on health care — "at some of her comments: how partisan, how negative, how quick to judge".
