The phrase "attend a speech" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act of being present at a speech or lecture given by someone.
Example: "I plan to attend a speech by the renowned author next week at the university."
Alternatives: "be present at a speech" or "go to a speech".
Mr. Marjan said the government had never bothered with the council, and the council members had never met with the president, except once to attend a speech.
A White House official said that he was not aware that either Ms. Palin or Mr. McCain would attend a speech that President Bush is scheduled to give on Tuesday, the opening day of the United Nations General Assembly.
It was unclear whether Mr. Adelson and others would attend a dinner that Mr. Romney and Mr. Netanyahu are scheduled to have Sunday evening, but donors said that they were invited to attend a speech that Mr. Romney is set to deliver.
ONE March morning two years ago, a Pace University freshman named Brian Kelly and a dozen or so friends piled into a few cars and drove to the university's Westchester County campus in Pleasantville, to attend a speech by former President Bill Clinton.
"We have so many hopes and wishes that he will never be able to fulfill them," said Susanne Grieshaber, 40, an art adviser in Berlin who was one of 200,000 Germans to attend a speech by Mr. Obama there in July.
Lown, a cardiologist, had been comfortably engaged in inventing the DC defibrillator while also researching causes and possible treatments for sudden cardiac death when a friend invited him to attend a speech by peace activist Philip Noel-Bakerecipientent of the 1959 Nobel Peace Prize.
Prosecutors also said that Mr. Ganczarski attended a speech delivered by bin Laden in January 2000.
At a meeting of world leaders here last week, President Clinton attended a speech by the Iranian president, Mohammad Khatami.
He considered Judaism, attended a speech by Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader, and then, to his parents' dismay, decided to become a Sunni Muslim.
Hisham Kassem, the former publisher of the Cairo daily Al Masri Al Youm, told me that, in late 2004, he attended a speech that Gamal Mubarak gave at the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs.
I recall attending a speech he gave at St Antony's College, Oxford, in 2006 as part of his unofficial extended farewell tour.
