Podcasts That Teach From Your Sources

An AI podcast generator turns a PDF, lecture transcript, slide deck, article, report, or topic into a voiced conversation. Scholarly scripts it for a host, an expert guest, and a producer, generates the audio, and adds chapters and a synced transcript.

Yes. Upload a textbook chapter, research paper, lecture deck, work report, whitepaper, or notes. Scholarly creates a podcast with a host, an expert guest, and a producer. You can combine PDFs with images, text files, and YouTube videos in one episode.

Yes. Scholarly podcasts are cited: each episode lists the sources it was built from in its Sources tab. Episodes are scripted from the files you add rather than from a generic outline of the topic, so you can open the original and check anything that sounds off.

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.

The language picker offers 71 output languages and regional variants, including Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Portuguese, and the source can be in a different language from the episode. English episodes are voiced from a catalogue of 10 voices and other languages from 30 multilingual voices; you can pick the guest's voice or let Scholarly choose.

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. Everyone can stream and share the audio or synchronised chapter-slide video. Premium and Laureate can download the episode as an MP3 for audio apps or as a 16:9 MP4, and can download the chapter slides as PowerPoint (.pptx) or save them to Google Slides.

Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) is a general research notebook whose Audio Overviews come in four formats and 80+ languages, with two hosts (one in Brief), Shorter, Default, and Longer lengths, and downloadable audio. Scholarly uses a host, an expert guest, and a producer, lets you pick the guest's voice, sets a paid target up to 60 minutes, adds chapters, a searchable transcript, Producer Notes, and a chapter-slide video, and offers Conversational, Exam Prep, and Deep Dive styles. Scholarly episodes are cited: each one lists the sources it was built from in its Sources tab. Scholarly downloads need a paid plan. You can reuse the same material for flashcards and quizzes.

Yes. Every podcast gets a shareable link you can send to friends or post in a class chat. Listeners don't need a Scholarly account to stream it, and you can revoke the link at any time.

For studying, choose a generator that works from your course material. Scholarly creates episodes with a host, an expert guest, and a producer from PDFs, lecture notes, slides, YouTube videos, or a topic. Each episode includes chapters and a synced transcript, in 71 output languages and regional variants, and it is free to try with no credit card.

Yes. Beyond PDFs, Scholarly generates podcasts from lecture slides, text files, photos of handwritten notes, YouTube videos, and plain topic prompts. You can mix several source types into a single episode (for example, a slide deck plus the recorded lecture it came from), and the episode covers them together.

Treat each episode as a first pass: listen once for the big picture, then re-read the source while the structure is fresh, and finally self-test. Because Scholarly generates the podcast from your own material and lets you turn the same source into flashcards and quizzes, listening becomes active review you reinforce with recall, not passive background noise. The same approach works for professionals briefing on a report or researchers digesting papers: chapter markers and the synced transcript let you replay the parts you found hardest.

Upload a textbook chapter, research paper, or slide deck as a PDF, then choose a conversation style and language. Scholarly scripts an episode with a host, an expert guest, and a producer. See the AI podcast from PDF guide or open the PDF to Podcast tool.

Producer Notes are timestamped research briefings included with new Scholarly podcast episodes. While the audio is generated, a research agent studies the same chapters, searches the web, and writes notes with cited, validated links at the moments where extra context helps. You can jump the player to a note's timestamp, open its sources, or send the note into the episode chat to explore it further. Episodes also include a curated Related Resources list for continuing beyond the episode.

No. On an episode with more than one chapter, chapter 1 becomes playable while the remaining chapters are still being recorded, so a long episode starts paying off within a minute or two. When the complete episode is ready, playback switches to it and keeps your position.