What is obsidian-open-edge-tts?

Read in Edge is a small plugin for Obsidian, the note-taking app, that adds a quick way to have your notes read aloud to you. It does not build its own text-to-speech feature. Instead, it opens the note you are currently viewing in Microsoft Edge, so you can use Edge's own built-in Read Aloud feature to have the page spoken out loud. Once installed, a new ribbon icon appears in Obsidian, and there is also a command called Read with Edge available from the command palette. Clicking either one opens the current Markdown note in a new Edge window. From there, you press a keyboard shortcut inside Edge to start the built-in Read Aloud voice. The plugin only works on desktop, not on mobile, since it relies on launching a separate desktop browser window. Installation is done manually rather than through Obsidian's plugin marketplace: you either build the plugin from source or download the two files that make it up, main.js and manifest.json, from the project's GitHub releases page, then place them into your vault's plugins folder and turn the plugin on in Obsidian's Community plugins settings. The project is small and focused on one job rather than trying to be a full text-to-speech system on its own. By handing the actual voice work off to Edge, it avoids needing any separate audio engine, API key, or configuration inside Obsidian itself, which keeps the plugin's own code simple and easy to maintain. It is released under the MIT license, and a Chinese-language version of the README is also provided for Chinese-speaking users, suggesting the author expects at least some of its audience to come from that community.