This also applies to espeak-ng. Neither espeak nor espeak-ng will work on chromebooks. I use an acer spin #713 and how I am writing this at all is because I got tdsr working. I also got the git version of fenrir working on this system but the released versions before December 2024 cannot work on a chromebook. A couple bugs prevent those versions from working. I installed espeak-ng and the espeakup package and the operating system here is a cut down version of debian bookworm google loads onto these chromebooks. During package install systemctl is unable to create some part and running the systemctl enable espeakup command later in sudo then rebooting fails to get espeak-ng or espeak working. Sound system here is alsa with pipewire not pulse. I don't know if google cut the espeak support out of the kernels I got but wouldn't rule it out.
