AI Meeting Notes

Record a lecture or meeting directly in your browser, or upload existing audio files. Scholarly transcribes the audio and writes a summary, decisions, action items, and timestamped topics as soon as the recording finishes. Every recording also gets an AI chat grounded in its transcript. It works equally well for a two-hour lecture and a team meeting, learners get study-ready notes, and professionals get a clean record of what was decided and what needs doing.

Live Recording

Start a recording from the Create menu, the home page, or the sidebar. Once capture begins, a small bar appears at the bottom of the screen and follows you across the whole app.

• The capture bar: It shows elapsed time and a level meter that moves while sound is arriving, and keeps Pause and Finish one click away. Open takes you back to the recording page whenever you want it.
• Leaving the page no longer stops capture: Open a source, take notes, or start a chat while the recording keeps running. The bar comes with you.
• Audio is captured in your browser. No external software needed.
• Chunked uploads: Audio uploads in small pieces continuously, so nothing is lost if your connection drops or your browser crashes.
• Pause and resume: Pause the recording at any time and pick it back up when ready.
• One at a time: Only one capture can run at once. Finish the active one before starting another.
• Max length: 60 minutes per meeting on Free, up to 10 hours on paid plans. You are told as you approach the limit, and capture saves and transcribes automatically when it is reached.
• Click Finish when you are done. Transcription begins automatically.

Live Transcript

Your words appear in the Transcript tab while you are still speaking.

• Lines land within seconds, cut at natural pauses, so each one reads as a finished phrase rather than a fragment.
• A status line under the newest line says what is happening right now: Listening, Transcribing, paused, or that no sound is reaching your microphone so nothing is being transcribed. If live text stalls, it says so and confirms your audio is still being recorded.
• The transcript follows the newest line on its own. Scroll back to read something earlier and a Jump to live button brings you back.
• Search the transcript at any point, during capture or after.
• When you press Finish, the full transcript is already on screen while the final transcript is saved.
• Long recordings keep their whole transcript. Use Show earlier lines or keep scrolling to load the rest.

Upload Audio

If you already have a recording, upload it instead.

• Supported formats: MP3, M4A, WAV, WebM, OGG.
• Upload from the Upload modal, the home page, or the flashcard creator.
• Each upload creates a dedicated recording page with the same transcription and AI features as a live recording.

Transcription and Notes

After recording or uploading, Scholarly transcribes the audio automatically:

• Timestamped transcript: Every segment has a time marker. Click any segment to seek the audio player to that exact moment. Uploads longer than your plan's limit keep their full audio; only the duration covered by your plan's per-meeting limit is transcribed. See Limits below.

Notes are written as soon as transcription finishes, and they are included with every meeting at no extra cost. Notes include:

• AI-generated summary: A concise overview. Meetings get decisions, action items with owners and dates, and open questions; lectures get a study-guide structure.
• Timestamped topics: The recording split into titled sections, each with its time range and a short summary, so you can find the moment a decision or follow-up came up.
• Auto-generated title: A descriptive title based on the content.
• Recording language: A recording made in another language keeps that language. Its summary, topics, and title come back in the language that was spoken, not in English.

The transcript and player stay available while notes are written. If a meeting fails to process, you can retry it from the recording page, retrying the notes or replacing the audio does not take another meeting out of your weekly allowance. A meeting recorded before notes were included shows a Generate notes button that adds them at no cost.

Recording Page

The recording page is your hub for reviewing and studying. At the top sit the title, the recording's status, and the date it was made. Everything else lives in one card below.

Title and Status

• Rename in place: Click the large title and type. The new name is used everywhere the recording appears.
• The status line says where the recording stands, recording, not processed, processing, ready, or processing failed, alongside its length and date.

Audio Player

Once a recording is processed, its player sits between the title and the card.

• Playback speed control from 0.5x to 2x.
• Seek, skip forward, and skip back controls.
• Topic markers displayed on the progress bar so you can jump to key moments.
• Your place and speed are remembered in this browser, so reopening a long recording picks up where you left off at the speed you were using.
• Jumping to a topic marker or a transcript line while the recording is paused moves the player straight away, rather than waiting for you to press play.

Tabs

One card holds all four tabs, so switching tabs swaps that card's contents.

• Transcript: The live transcript while you record, and the full timestamped transcript afterwards. Click any segment to seek.
• Summary: AI-generated overview of the recording.
• Topics: The recording broken into timestamped topics, each with a title, its time range, and a short summary. Click a topic to jump back to that moment.
• AI creations: Create flashcards, quizzes, notes, and more from the recording, and see everything already made from it.

Before a recording is processed these tabs are not blank: each one tells you what will fill it once you finish.

Other Actions

• Download: Download the original audio file (available in the three-dot menu).

Warnings and Problems

Every recording warning and failure shows up in the same place, as one notice at the top of the recording page that stays until it no longer applies, not a toast that disappears before you can read it. Each notice carries the fix or a retry.

• Blocked or silent microphone: You are told within seconds that nothing is being heard, along with what to check: the mic permission in the address bar, the right input, and whether another app has taken the microphone.
• Interrupted capture: Scholarly watches for a computer going to sleep, a suspended tab, or a microphone that has stopped delivering audio. It restarts the microphone where it can, and either way it tells you roughly how much time went uncaptured instead of quietly handing you partial notes. That disclosure stays with the finished recording.
• Unsupported browser: If your browser can't record audio, you are told before you start, with the option to upload a file instead.
• Failed processing: Your audio is kept, and Try again picks up where it stopped. A failed notes run keeps the transcript and charges nothing.
• Abandoned recordings expire: A capture left behind by a closed tab or a sleeping device ends on its own rather than blocking your next recording. Any audio already saved is kept, so you can open that recording and finish it.

AI Chat

Every completed recording has a dedicated chat panel.

• Ask questions and the AI searches your transcript to find relevant context before answering.
• Conversation suggestions are generated based on the recording content, so you can start studying immediately.

Flashcards from Audio

You can create flashcards directly from recordings:

• Open the flashcard creator from a completed recording.
• The flashcard creator also accepts audio file uploads directly.
• Completed recordings appear in the Library tab of the flashcard creator, so you can generate cards from any past recording.

Sharing

Share any recording with a link. Recipients can:

• Listen to the audio.
• Read the full transcript.
• View the summary, with its decisions and action items, and the timestamped topics.
• Leave comments and reactions.

Limits

Transcript and notes are included with every meeting. A meeting does not use an AI Creation Credit, on any plan. Starting a meeting counts against your meeting allowance. Free includes 3 meetings total with no reset. Paid meeting allowances reset every Monday at 00:00 UTC. Recording does not use your file-upload slot.

• Free: 3 meetings total (no reset), each transcribed up to 60 minutes, with notes.
• Premium Lite, where offered: 7 meetings a week, each transcribed up to 3 hours 20 minutes, with notes.
• Premium and Premium for Teams: 20 meetings a week, each transcribed up to 10 hours, with notes.
• Laureate, Laureate for Teams, and Enterprise: 100 meetings a week, each transcribed up to 10 hours, with notes. When the week is full, the next meeting waits until the stated reset. It is not an upgrade pitch.

The separate **Transcribe** creation tool still uses one AI Creation Credit to create a transcript file. Creating another artefact from a finished recording, such as flashcards or a video, also uses AI Creation Credits according to the selected model. See Plans and Limits for the full breakdown.

Related

• Transcription, the creation tool that returns a downloadable .txt or .vtt transcript file instead of a recording page.
• Record a Lecture and Turn It Into Notes: the step-by-step walkthrough from a live lecture to notes, flashcards, a quiz, or a video.
• Uploading Content, how upload slots work for files.
• Flashcards, turning a recorded meeting or talk into cards.
• Plans and Limits, credits, meeting limits, and recording lengths by plan.