wild guess on the search on the MSDN library on web gives assumption that automation isn't supported with normal speech engines shipped with OS:
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The Microsoft® Speech SDK 5.1 adds Automation support to the features of the previous version of the Speech SDK. You can now use the Win32 Speech API (SAPI) to develop speech applications with Microsoft Visual Basic®, ECMAScript and other Automation languages.
This says that I might need to do same thing with this as I did with winHTTP...

right?
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