{"toolsAudioToNotes":{"heroBadge":"Audio to Notes","heroTitle":"Turn any audio into","heroTitleHighlight":"clean, structured notes","heroSubtitle":"Voice memos, seminar recordings, podcasts, interviews, office hours, meetings — upload the file and Scholarly's AI Meeting Notes turns the recording into clean, organized notes you can actually study from.","heroCta":"Convert audio to notes free","heroCtaSecondary":"Explore audio recordings","heroTrust":"Free to start · No credit card required","heroUpdated":"Updated June 2026","heroSocialProof":"Used by 200,000+ learners and professionals worldwide","eyebrowAnswer":"Quick answer","answerTitle":"How do I convert an audio file to notes?","answerBody":"Upload the audio file to Scholarly — MP3, M4A (iPhone voice memos), WAV, WebM, or OGG, plus video files like MP4. Scholarly transcribes it with timestamps, then generates structured notes: headings by topic, definitions, examples, and key takeaways. The transcript stays attached, so you can verify any detail against the original audio, and the notes can become flashcards or a quiz in one click.","answerStep0":"Upload the audio file (or a video — Scholarly uses its audio track).","answerStep1":"Scholarly transcribes it, then writes organized notes with topic headings and timestamps.","answerStep2":"Review the notes, then generate flashcards, a quiz, or ask the AI chat about the recording.","eyebrowSources":"What audio works","sourcesHeading":"One tool for every recording you collect as a student","sourcesSubheading":"If it's spoken and you can save it as a file, Scholarly can turn it into notes.","source0Title":"Voice memos","source0Body":"The 20-minute memo you recorded explaining a topic to yourself before an exam — turned into an outline you can actually revisit.","source1Title":"Lecture recordings","source1Body":"Full class sessions, including 2–3 hour seminars. Get notes organized by topic instead of a wall of raw transcript.","source2Title":"Seminars & tutorials","source2Body":"Discussion-heavy sessions where arguments, counterexamples, and themes matter more than slides.","source3Title":"Podcasts","source3Body":"Course-relevant episodes become structured notes you can search and cite instead of vague memories of \"that one episode.\"","source4Title":"Interviews & fieldwork","source4Body":"Research interviews and oral histories transcribed with timestamps, then summarized by theme for your write-up.","source5Title":"Office hours & study groups","source5Body":"The places where the real explanations happen — captured, transcribed, and condensed into the points that matter.","eyebrowExample":"Example output","exampleTitle":"What do the notes look like?","exampleSubtitle":"Here's the shape of the notes Scholarly generates from a typical recording — a student's 38-minute exam-review voice memo on enzyme kinetics.","exampleFileName":"enzyme-kinetics-review.m4a","exampleFileMeta":"38:12 · voice memo · transcribed and structured by Scholarly","example0Heading":"Michaelis–Menten model","example0Timestamp":"02:10","example0Bullet0":"Reaction velocity rises with substrate concentration but saturates at Vmax — the enzyme's active sites become the bottleneck.","example0Bullet1":"Km is the substrate concentration at half of Vmax; a low Km means high affinity between enzyme and substrate.","example0Bullet2":"Assumes steady state: the enzyme–substrate complex forms and breaks down at equal rates.","example1Heading":"Competitive vs. non-competitive inhibition","example1Timestamp":"14:45","example1Bullet0":"Competitive inhibitors bind the active site — raising substrate concentration can outcompete them, so Vmax is unchanged but apparent Km rises.","example1Bullet1":"Non-competitive inhibitors bind elsewhere and lower Vmax; extra substrate can't rescue the reaction.","example2Heading":"Lineweaver–Burk plots","example2Timestamp":"27:30","example2Bullet0":"Double-reciprocal plot turns the Michaelis–Menten curve into a straight line — easier to read Vmax and Km from intercepts.","example2Bullet1":"Inhibition types are distinguishable by how the lines pivot: same y-intercept for competitive, same x-intercept for non-competitive.","exampleFootnote":"Every heading keeps its timestamp, so you can jump back to the original audio when a detail matters. From here, one click generates flashcards or a practice quiz from the same recording.","eyebrowDeepDive":"Deep dive","d1Title":"What audio formats can I upload?","d1Para1":"MP3, M4A (the format iPhone voice memos use), WAV, WebM, and OGG upload directly. Video files like MP4 and MOV work too — Scholarly transcribes the audio track and ignores the picture. Long files are fine, including multi-hour seminar recordings.","d2Title":"How is Audio to Notes different from transcription?","d2ParaPrefix":"Transcription gives you the verbatim record — every sentence, in order. Notes are the condensed version: organized by topic, with definitions and takeaways pulled out. If what you mainly need is the verbatim text with timestamps, use","d2ParaLink":"Lecture Transcription","d2ParaSuffix":"instead. Audio to Notes runs the same transcription underneath, then does the organizing for you — and keeps the transcript attached either way, so you never lose the source.","d3Title":"How good is the result on messy, rambling audio?","d3Para1":"Better than you'd expect, with honest limits. Spoken explanations are naturally repetitive and out of order — that's exactly what the note-generation step fixes, because it organizes by topic rather than by the order things were said. A rambling 40-minute memo usually becomes a tight one-page outline.","d3Para2":"What genuinely hurts quality is bad audio, not bad structure: a microphone far from the speaker, heavy crosstalk, or loud background noise degrade the transcript the notes are built on. For anything high-stakes, check critical numbers and terms against the timestamped transcript — it takes seconds, and you're verifying against what was actually said.","d4Title":"What can I do after the notes are generated?","d4Para1":"The recording becomes a source in your Scholarly workspace, so everything builds on it without re-uploading: generate spaced-repetition flashcards or a practice quiz from the notes, ask the recording questions and get answers that cite the exact passage of the recording, or combine it with your PDFs and slides into one study set for the exam.","d4GuidePrefix":"New to the workflow?","d4GuideLink":"Our guide on how to turn lecture recordings into study notes","d4GuideSuffix":"walks through every step from capturing the audio to building flashcards and a practice exam.","eyebrowFaq":"FAQ","faqTitle":"Audio to notes FAQ","faq0Title":"What audio files can I convert to notes?","faq0Body":"MP3, M4A, WAV, WebM, and OGG audio files, plus video files like MP4 — Scholarly uses the audio track. That covers voice memos, lecture recordings, seminar audio, podcasts saved as files, and interview recordings.","faq1Title":"Do iPhone voice memos work?","faq1Body":"Yes. iPhone voice memos are M4A files, which upload directly. Share the memo to your computer or upload it from the phone's browser — no conversion needed.","faq2Title":"How long can the audio be?","faq2Body":"On paid plans, recordings of up to 10 hours are transcribed in full, including 2–3 hour seminars, so you don't need to split them; the Free plan transcribes the first 60 minutes. Longer files take a bit more time to transcribe.","faq3Title":"Does it handle multiple speakers?","faq3Body":"Yes. Multi-person seminars, meetings, and interviews are transcribed in full and organized by topic in the notes. The transcript does not add automatic speaker labels, so where who-said-what matters, add names in the editable transcript or in the notes.","faq4Title":"What do the generated notes include?","faq4Body":"Topic headings with timestamps, definitions of key terms, the examples used in the recording, and a set of takeaways — organized by topic rather than the order things were said. The full transcript stays attached for verification.","faq5Title":"Can I make flashcards or a quiz from the audio?","faq5Body":"Yes. Once the notes are generated, one click creates spaced-repetition flashcards or a practice quiz from the same recording — no copying text between tools.","faq6Title":"What languages are supported?","faq6Body":"Scholarly transcribes audio in 70+ languages, and you can generate the notes in a different language than the recording — useful for studying in your second language.","faq7Title":"Is Audio to Notes free?","faq7Body":"Scholarly is free to start with no credit card required. Paid plans unlock longer files and unlimited uploads.","faq8Title":"How do I turn a recording into notes?","faq8Body":"Upload the recording to Scholarly — a voice memo, lecture, seminar, podcast, or interview in MP3, M4A, WAV, WebM, OGG, or a video file. Scholarly transcribes it with timestamps, then turns the recording into structured notes: topic headings, definitions, examples, and takeaways. The transcript stays attached so you can verify any detail, and the same recording becomes a source you can build flashcards, a quiz, or cited chat answers from — no copying text between tools.","relatedLinksHeading":"More lecture and audio study tools","relatedLink0Title":"Lecture Transcription","relatedLink0Description":"Turn lecture audio into searchable, timestamped text.","relatedLink1Title":"Lecture Recorder","relatedLink1Description":"Record live classes and get same-day notes and flashcards.","relatedLink2Title":"YouTube to Notes","relatedLink2Description":"Paste a video link and get organized study notes.","relatedLink3Title":"AI Lecture Notes","relatedLink3Description":"Generate clean, structured notes from any lecture.","relatedLink4Title":"Recordings in Scholarly","relatedLink4Description":"See everything the recordings workspace can do.","relatedLink5Title":"AI Lecture Recorder Guide","relatedLink5Description":"How students use AI to capture and review lectures.","eyebrowPricing":"Pricing","ctaTitle":"Turn your recordings into notes","ctaSubtitle":"Free to start. Upload any audio file and get structured notes, a searchable transcript, and one-click flashcards from the same recording.","seoTitle":"Audio to Notes — Turn Any Recording into AI Study Notes","seoDescription":"Audio to notes for students: turn any recording into structured AI notes with timestamps — transcript included, flashcards one click away.","seoKeyword0":"audio to notes","seoKeyword1":"ai audio to notes","seoKeyword2":"convert audio to notes","seoKeyword3":"voice memo to notes","seoKeyword4":"recording to notes","seoKeyword5":"audio notes generator","seoKeyword6":"transcribe audio to notes","seoKeyword7":"podcast to notes","seoFeature0":"Audio file upload (MP3, M4A, WAV)","seoFeature1":"AI transcription with timestamps","seoFeature2":"Structured notes by topic","seoFeature3":"Editable transcript attached","seoFeature4":"Flashcard generation","seoFeature5":"Quiz generation","howToName":"How to Convert Audio to Notes","howToStep0Name":"Upload the audio","howToStep0Text":"Add a voice memo, lecture recording, seminar, podcast, or interview — MP3, M4A, WAV, WebM, OGG, or a video file.","howToStep1Name":"Generate the notes","howToStep1Text":"Scholarly transcribes the recording with timestamps, then writes structured notes organized by topic with definitions and takeaways.","howToStep2Name":"Study from the recording","howToStep2Text":"Turn the notes into flashcards or a practice quiz, and ask the AI chat questions that cite the exact passage of the audio.","relatedLink6Title":"Listen to a PDF","relatedLink6Description":"Play a document out loud and follow along with a synced transcript."}}