The act of reading something out loud, often used in contexts like text-to-speech, announcements, or classroom recitation.
The minutes were read aloud at the meeting.
This app supports text-to-speech reading aloud.
The students took turns reading aloud from the textbook.
I used my phone's text-to-speech function to listen to the book.
At the graduation ceremony, each name was called out one by one.
音読 usually refers to reading text aloud for language practice or pronunciation drills, whereas 読み上げ refers to reading something aloud so that others can hear it, as in announcements or automated speech.
黙読 means reading silently to oneself, the direct opposite of 読み上げ, which means reading aloud.
読み込み means loading or reading data into a system (a computing term), while 読み上げ means reading text aloud; the two share the 読み root but differ completely in meaning.
abacus calculation with figures read aloud
Standard kanji spelling for 'reading aloud'.
Variant kanji spelling; less common than 読み上げ.
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'.