noun
The act of reading something out loud, often used in contexts like text-to-speech, announcements, or classroom recitation.
このアプリはテキストの読み上げに対応している。
This app supports text-to-speech reading aloud.
生徒たちは教科書の読み上げを順番に行った。
The students took turns reading aloud from the textbook.
朗読 implies a more expressive, often artistic reading aloud, such as poetry or literature, while 読み上げ is a neutral, functional reading aloud.
Compound of 読み (yomi, 'reading', the continuative form of 読む) and 上げ (age, 'raising', the continuative form of 上げる), literally 'reading up' or 'reading out'.