well certainly the fact that some factions have the <same> speeches with the <same> accent would make you think that they did rush through speeches.

Why else would they make a Byzantine faction leader have a spanish accent?

And you can get speeches without a general or family member. I had an army with no general just a bunch of units... and I still had 1 guy give a very short speech about how the other person is not fit to breathe the same air (there are lots of speeches similar to that)