{"aiLectureSummarizer":{"heroImgAlt":"AI-generated study notes open in the Scholarly editor, organised into headings and bullet points","heroTitle":"Turn a 90-Minute Lecture into a","heroTitleHighlight":"5-Minute Read","heroDesc":"Drop in a lecture PDF, an audio recording, or a YouTube video and our AI lecture summarizer pulls out the TL;DR, the key concepts, and the action items — then turns them into flashcards, a quiz, and a podcast.","heroCta":"Try Scholarly free","heroCtaSecondary":"See the summary feature","heroNote":"Free to start · No credit card · PDFs, audio, video, slides","heroSocialProof":"Used by 200,000+ learners and professionals worldwide","trustStat1":"200,000+","trustStat1Label":"Learners and professionals","trustStat2":"70+","trustStat2Label":"Languages","trustStat3":"Minutes","trustStat3Label":"Per summary","eyebrowHow":"How it works","howTitle":"How to summarize a lecture in minutes","howDesc":"Three steps from a 90-minute class to a summary you can actually read on the bus.","step1Title":"Upload or paste","step1Desc":"Drop in a lecture PDF, an audio file, a YouTube link, or your own AI Meeting Notes source. Scholarly handles every common format.","step2Title":"AI structures the summary","step2Desc":"Within minutes you get a TL;DR, a key-concept table, the worked examples your professor used, and the action items they assigned.","step3Title":"Loop into active recall","step3Desc":"Convert the summary into flashcards, a quiz, or a practice exam with one click — and revise instead of just re-reading.","eyebrowFeatures":"Features","featuresTitle":"A summary that's actually useful","featuresDesc":"Most AI summarizers spit out a wall of bullet points. Scholarly produces a structured study artifact you can revise from.","feature1Title":"Structured, not a blob","feature1Desc":"Every summary is split into TL;DR, key concepts, worked examples, and action items — a navigable artifact, not a wall of text.","feature2Title":"PDFs, audio, video, slides","feature2Desc":"Lecture PDFs, MP3/M4A recordings, YouTube videos, and slide decks all work. Mix and match across a single class.","feature3Title":"Concept tables, not bullet lists","feature3Desc":"Comparison tables for paired concepts (SN1 vs SN2, mitosis vs meiosis), so the structure of the lecture stays intact.","feature4Title":"Live audio + AI Meeting Notes","feature4Desc":"Pair with Scholarly's AI Meeting Notes app to capture live class audio and get a summary the moment the lecture ends.","feature5Title":"YouTube and online lectures","feature5Desc":"Paste a YouTube URL for a free AI Meeting Notes source and get the same structured summary you'd get from a PDF.","feature6Title":"Drives the rest of your study","feature6Desc":"Same lecture becomes spaced-repetition flashcards, a practice exam, and a multi-speaker podcast — one upload, full review loop.","eyebrowWhy":"Why it matters","quickAnswer":"To summarize a lecture recording with AI, upload the audio (MP3, M4A, WAV) — or a lecture PDF, a YouTube link, or slides — and Scholarly's AI lecture summarizer returns a structured summary: a one-paragraph TL;DR, a key-concept table, the worked examples your professor used, and the action items they assigned. It reads your actual recording rather than improvising, then turns the same source into flashcards, a quiz, and a podcast in one click.","whyTitle":"Why summarize your lectures with AI?","why1":"A 90-minute lecture is built for delivery, not for review. Re-watching it to find the one concept you're stuck on is a brutal use of time. A good lecture summary is the bridge — it gives you a navigable map of the class so you can jump straight to the section you actually need to re-read, instead of scrubbing a recording or flipping through 60 pages of slides.","why2":"The trick is that summarizing well is hard. A list of bullet points loses the argument. A pure transcript wastes your time. Scholarly's AI lecture summarizer organizes the class the way a strong note-taker would: a one-paragraph TL;DR, a table of key concepts with definitions, the worked examples the professor used, and a list of action items the lecture explicitly assigned.","why3Start":"Because Scholarly understands lectures across formats — a PDF deck, an audio file from your phone, a YouTube link, or live audio captured by the","why3Link":"AI Meeting Notes","why3End":"— you can summarize anything you sat through. And because every summary lives next to your flashcards, study notes, and practice exams, you don't stop at \"read the summary.\" You drill on it.","why4Start":"This is the part most summarizers miss: a summary is only useful if it loops back into active recall. Scholarly turns the same lecture into","why4Link1":"spaced-repetition flashcards","why4Middle":"and a","why4Link2":"practice test","why4End":"— so reading the summary is the start of revision, not the end of it.","eyebrowSample":"Sample output","sampleTitle":"Sample summary output","sampleBadge":"Organic Chemistry · Lecture 8","sampleDesc":"A real summary structure from a 75-minute orgo lecture on SN1 vs SN2 reactions.","sampleTldrLabel":"TL;DR","sampleTldrText":"SN1 and SN2 are two nucleophilic substitution mechanisms. SN2 is concerted, one-step, second-order, and favored by strong nucleophiles and unhindered substrates. SN1 is stepwise via a carbocation, first-order, and favored by polar protic solvents and stable carbocations (tertiary > secondary > primary).","sampleConceptsLabel":"Key Concepts","sampleTableHeadConcept":"Concept","sampleTableHeadSn1":"SN1","sampleTableHeadSn2":"SN2","sampleRow1Label":"Rate law","sampleRow1Sn1":"First-order","sampleRow1Sn2":"Second-order","sampleRow2Label":"Substrate","sampleRow2Sn1":"Tertiary > 2° > 1°","sampleRow2Sn2":"Methyl > 1° > 2°","sampleRow3Label":"Stereochemistry","sampleRow3Sn1":"Racemization","sampleRow3Sn2":"Inversion (Walden)","sampleRow4Label":"Solvent","sampleRow4Sn1":"Polar protic","sampleRow4Sn2":"Polar aprotic","sampleActionLabel":"Action Items","sampleAction1":"Memorize the SN1/SN2 decision tree (slide 14)","sampleAction2":"Practice problems 4.7-4.12 from the textbook before next lecture","sampleAction3":"Review Walden inversion mechanism — appears on Friday's quiz","eyebrowCompare":"Comparison","scholarlyBadge":"Best for students","comparisonTitle":"Scholarly vs. Mindgrasp for lecture summaries","comparisonDesc":"Mindgrasp built its reputation on lecture summarization and does it well. Here's an honest comparison.","mindgraspTitle":"Mindgrasp","mindgraspP1Bold":"Where it shines:","mindgraspP1":"a polished, fast summarizer with a long track record in the student space and strong integrations with Google Drive and YouTube.","mindgraspP2":"Good at producing clean summary text from PDFs, audio, and video — a solid choice if a summary is all you need.","mindgraspP3":"The follow-through is thinner: limited flashcard support, no full practice-exam generator, no multi-speaker podcast format from the same source.","mindgraspP4":"Plan structure and prices change; check what Mindgrasp includes at no cost on its own pricing page before relying on it.","scholarlyCompTitle":"Scholarly","scholarlyCompP1Bold":"Where it shines:","scholarlyCompP1":"the summary is the start of a full review loop — flashcards, quiz, podcast, and chat tutor all share the same source.","scholarlyCompP2":"Structured output by default: TL;DR, key-concept table, worked examples, action items — not just a paragraph blob.","scholarlyCompP3":"Same upload becomes a spaced-repetition deck and a graded practice exam — active recall, not just reading.","scholarlyCompP4":"Permanent free tier with included AI Creation Credits; Premium unlocks longer sources and higher generation limits.","eyebrowFaq":"FAQ","faqTitle":"Lecture summarizer — frequently asked questions","faq1Q":"How does the AI lecture summarizer work?","faq1A":"Upload a lecture PDF, an audio recording, a YouTube link, or a slide deck. Scholarly processes the source, extracts the structure of the lecture, and returns a summary with a TL;DR, a key-concept table, worked examples, and action items — usually within a couple of minutes.","faq2Q":"Can I summarize a lecture PDF for free?","faq2A":"Yes. You can summarize lecture PDFs free with a Scholarly account — no credit card required to start. Free accounts include free AI Creation Credits; Premium unlocks longer sources and higher generation limits.","faq3Q":"What inputs does it accept?","faq3A":"Lecture PDFs (including slide decks exported as PDF), MP3 and M4A audio recordings, YouTube video links, MP4 video files, and live audio captured by Scholarly's AI Meeting Notes. You can mix multiple sources into one summary — e.g., the slides plus your recorded audio.","faq4Q":"How is this different from Mindgrasp?","faq4A":"Mindgrasp is a solid summarizer. The main difference is follow-through: Scholarly turns the same lecture into spaced-repetition flashcards, a full practice exam, and a multi-speaker study podcast — all from the same upload. If you want a summary that loops back into active recall, that's where Scholarly's design diverges.","faq5Q":"How accurate is the summary?","faq5A":"Summaries are anchored to your uploaded source — Scholarly extracts what's actually in the lecture rather than improvising. As with any AI tool, review the output against the original. Most students treat the summary as a navigable map of the class and re-read the source when a section matters.","faq6Q":"Can I export the summary?","faq6A":"Yes. Summaries can be exported as PDF or copied as Markdown. There is no CSV export of the key-concept table; to move the concepts into Anki, generate flashcards from the same source and export the deck as an Anki .apkg file on a paid plan.","faq7Q":"Does it work for non-English lectures?","faq7A":"Yes. The summarizer handles audio and PDFs in dozens of languages, and you can choose the output language separately from the input — so a Spanish lecture can return an English summary, or vice versa.","faq8Q":"Can I summarize a YouTube lecture?","faq8A":"Yes. Paste a YouTube URL and Scholarly will pull the transcript and generate a structured summary. This works for educational channels, open-courseware lectures, and conference talks.","faq9Q":"How do I summarize a lecture recording?","faq9A":"Upload your audio recording (MP3, M4A, WAV, WebM, or OGG) — or record the class live with Scholarly's AI Meeting Notes. The AI transcribes it, then summarizes the recording into a TL;DR, a key-concept table, worked examples, and action items, usually within a couple of minutes. From there you can convert the same recording into flashcards or a practice exam.","relatedHeading":"More ways to study with Scholarly","relatedSubheading":"Pair your lecture summary with the rest of the Scholarly platform.","related1Title":"AI Meeting Notes","related1Desc":"Record live class audio and get a summary the moment it ends.","related2Title":"AI Practice Exam Generator","related2Desc":"Turn a summarized lecture into a graded mock exam.","related3Title":"PDF Summarizer","related3Desc":"Chat with a PDF and get the parts that matter.","related4Title":"AI Study Notes Generator","related4Desc":"Organized notes from PDFs, slides, and lectures.","related5Title":"AI Podcast from PDF","related5Desc":"Turn dense reading into a multi-speaker study podcast.","related6Title":"All AI Study Tools","related6Desc":"Every Scholarly study tool in one place.","eyebrowPricing":"Pricing","bottomTitle":"Summarize your next lecture","bottomDesc":"Upload a lecture, get a structured summary, and turn it into a full review loop. Free to start.","seoTitle":"AI Lecture Summarizer for Recordings {'|'} Scholarly","seoDescription":"Summarize a lecture recording, PDF, YouTube video, or slides. Get a concise overview, concept table, action items, flashcards, and a quiz.","seoFeature1":"Structured output — TL;DR, concept table, action items","seoFeature2":"Works on PDFs, audio, video, slides, and YouTube","seoFeature3":"Concept comparison tables, not bullet blobs","seoFeature4":"Pairs with the live AI Meeting Notes","seoFeature5":"Multi-language input and output","seoFeature6":"Loops into flashcards and practice exams","seoHowToName":"How to summarize a lecture with AI","seoHowToStep1Name":"Upload or paste","seoHowToStep1Text":"Drop in a lecture PDF, an audio file, a YouTube link, or a slide deck. Scholarly reads the source directly — no copy-pasting required.","seoHowToStep2Name":"Generate the summary","seoHowToStep2Text":"The AI structures the lecture into a TL;DR, a key-concept table, worked examples, and the action items the professor assigned.","seoHowToStep3Name":"Loop into active recall","seoHowToStep3Text":"Convert the summary into spaced-repetition flashcards, a graded practice exam, or a multi-speaker study podcast — one click each.","seoKeyword1":"ai lecture summarizer","seoKeyword2":"summarize lecture pdf free","seoKeyword3":"lecture summary ai","seoKeyword4":"ai lecture summary","seoKeyword5":"summarize lecture audio","seoKeyword6":"summarize youtube lecture","seoKeyword7":"lecture summary generator","seoKeyword8":"mindgrasp alternative","seoKeyword9":"ai summary of lecture","seoKeyword10":"summarize a lecture recording"}}