It's absolutely wild that this isn't the first thing anyone would make there. ChatGPTs talk mode is so good, I'd kill for the ability to listen to longform articles at varying speeds/voices.
Edge is honestly slowly turning into a better Chrome, and the better parts aren't even the LLM craze.
If they keep it up, this might actually threaten Googles browser dominance.
On the AI end though Microsoft aggresively pursues support for other AI providers (Mistral and Lamma both being on Azure API's now), Google tying themselves to Gemini seems to be tying themselves to the best they can do while Microsoft seems to be accruing the best they can get.