Currently, to get the language-specific SAMPA form of each phoneme, a working (and espeak-friendly) installation of mbrola is required.
This is problematic for several reasons:
it requires an additional system-wide package install on linux platform (even though mbrola is available on most distributions)
it requires the installation of a corresponding mbrola voice, which is either unpractical and/or quite heavy. Moreover, the entirety of the voice's speech data isn't actually used by espeak for the phonemization.
Currently, to get the language-specific SAMPA form of each phoneme, a working (and espeak-friendly) installation of mbrola is required. This is problematic for several reasons:
The foldings are all here: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/tree/master/phsource/mbrola