Turn Any PDF Into a Study Podcast You Can Listen To

Upload your PDF and choose the podcast option. Scholarly scripts an episode with a host, an expert guest, and a producer. Free episodes are about 2 minutes; paid plans set a target up to 60 minutes. Generation time varies with the source, target length, model, and service load. Completed episodes include chapters and a transcript.

Both turn your sources into an AI conversation. Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) Audio Overviews use two hosts (one speaker in the Brief format), offer Deep Dive, Brief, Critique, and Debate formats in 80+ languages with Shorter, Default, and Longer lengths (Longer is English only), include an English voice join-in mode, and let you download the audio. Scholarly uses a host, an expert guest, and a producer, lets you pick the guest's voice, sets a paid target length up to 60 minutes, and adds chapters, a searchable transcript, timestamped Producer Notes with researched links, and a chapter-slide video. Scholarly episodes are cited: each one lists the sources it was built from in its Sources tab. Scholarly downloads need a paid plan, and its language picker has 71 options.

Textbook chapters, lecture slide decks (including PDFs exported from PowerPoint), lecture handouts, and research papers all work well. Clear, text-based PDFs convert best; very image-heavy scans may produce a shorter episode.

English episodes are voiced from a catalogue of 10 voices, and episodes in other languages from a catalogue of 30 multilingual voices. You can pick the guest's voice or let Scholarly choose; the host and producer are cast from the same catalogue, and each speaker is named after its voice. The language picker offers 71 output languages and regional variants, and the episode does not have to be in the same language as the source.

Yes. Scholarly podcasts are cited: each episode lists the sources it was built from in its Sources tab. The episode is generated from the content of your uploaded PDF, so it stays anchored to your source. As with any AI tool, check important points against the original and use the episode as a study aid, not a replacement.

Yes, to start. The Free plan includes one lifetime AI Creation Credit shared across Scholarly. Spent on a podcast, it makes one episode of about 2 minutes from one source (uploads up to 8 MB, the first 32 PDF pages), which you can stream and share by link. The credit does not reset, and downloads need a paid plan. Premium ($30/mo or $180/yr in the US) includes 15 AI Creation Credits each week. No credit card is required to start.

Yes, on a paid plan. Premium and Laureate can download the episode as an MP3 for podcast apps, or as an MP4 of the synchronised chapter-slide video. Every plan, including Free, can stream the episode in Scholarly and share it by view link.

Study with podcasts by listening to the episode once for the big picture, then re-reading the source while the structure is fresh, and finally self-testing. In Scholarly the same PDF that became a podcast also becomes flashcards and a practice exam, so listening becomes a first pass that you reinforce with active recall - not passive background noise.

The best fit for studying is a generator that uses your actual course material. Scholarly creates episodes with a host, an expert guest, and a producer from PDFs, slides, notes, or topics, with a synced transcript and chapters. It supports 71 output languages and regional variants, and the same material can become flashcards or a practice test. It is free to start.

Yes. Beyond textbook chapters, the AI podcast from PDF tool handles lecture slide decks (including PDFs exported from PowerPoint or Keynote), seminar handouts, and research papers. You can also combine several sources into one episode - for example a slide deck plus the chapter it summarises.

Free episodes are about 2 minutes. On Premium and Laureate you set a target from 5 to 60 minutes in 5-minute steps, with 15 minutes as the default; the target guides the script, so the final runtime can vary. A target over 15 minutes costs 1 extra AI Creation Credit, and over 30 minutes 2 extra.