speaking vs recital

speaking and recital both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
speaking	Yes	Yes	No	No
recital	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, recital is a hyponym of speaking; that is, recital is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than speaking:

speaking: delivering an address to a public audience
recital: a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance

Other hyponyms of speaking include reading, recitation, debate, disputation, public debate.

speaking (noun)	recital (noun)
delivering an address to a public audience	the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events
the utterance of intelligible speech	a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
	performance of music or dance especially by soloists
	a detailed account or description of something

speaking (adjective)	recital (adjective)
capable of or involving speech or speaking
capable of speech