Does a speech count as a document?

It is considered a document. "The Speech" is a glorious document of Marxism.

The ten types of documents are: monographs, journals, books, newspapers, conference documents, scientific and technological reports, standard documents, patent documents, dissertations, and government publications.

The basic elements of literature are: knowledge with historical value and research value; a certain carrier; certain methods and means; a certain meaning expression and recording system.

People usually understand literature:

The sum of knowledge recorded in books, journals, and regulations. Documents are the most effective means of recording, accumulating, disseminating and inheriting knowledge. They are the most basic and main source of information in human social activities and the most basic means of exchanging and disseminating information.

Documents are divided into printed, microform, machine-readable and audio-visual types according to the carrier; according to different publishing forms and contents, they can be divided into books, serial publications and special documents; according to the content of the documents , nature and processing depth can divide documents into zero-time documents, primary documents, secondary documents and tertiary documents.