French AI podcast generator
Turn a PDF, report or recording into a three-speaker podcast episode in French, with chapters, a transcript in French and citations back to your source.
Free to start, no credit card. The Free plan includes one lifetime AI Creation Credit.
Direct answer
Can AI turn a document into a podcast in French?
Yes. Upload the document, set the output language to French, and Scholarly scripts a conversation between a host, a producer and a guest from your source. All three speak French, and the transcript and captions follow the episode language.
- Free plan: One lifetime AI Creation Credit and one upload (up to 8 MB; the first 32 pages of a PDF are read), enough for one French episode of about 2 minutes, streamed and shared by link. MP3 and MP4 downloads are paid. No credit card.
- Paid plans: Premium ($30/mo in US dollars, lower local prices in some countries) includes 15 AI Creation Credits a week, up to 10 sources per episode, episodes up to 60 minutes and MP3 and MP4 downloads. An episode over 15 minutes costs 1 extra credit, over 30 minutes 2. Laureate ($99/mo) includes 80 credits a week.
- What goes in: PDFs, notes, slide decks, website links, YouTube videos and recordings. One source on Free, up to 10 per episode on Premium and 20 on Laureate.
- What comes out: A three-speaker episode with chapters, a clickable transcript and page-level citations, plus a chapter-slide video mode.
- How French is handled: Every voice is multilingual and follows French. The source can stay in English; the conversation is written in French. Narration is spoken by a multilingual voice that is told to speak French, or Canadian French when you pick it, and asked for native pronunciation.
Updated October 2026
Sample
How an episode sounds in French
Host
Concrètement, qu'est-ce qui change pour une nouvelle recrue pendant sa première semaine ?
Guest
Elle accompagne un collègue expérimenté pendant trois jours avant de prendre seule des appels clients.
Illustrative sample written for this page to show the format. Your output is written from your own files.
How it works
From document to French podcast episode
- 01
Add the source
Upload a PDF, report, deck or recording. Combine sources when the topic spans several files.
- 02
Choose French and a style
Set the output language to French and pick Conversational, Exam Prep or Deep Dive.
- 03
Listen and share
Play the episode with its transcript, jump between chapters, and share the link. Paid plans download the MP3.
Language details
How Scholarly handles French
What changes when the output language is French, taken from how the speech and rendering pipeline actually works.
Voice
Narration is spoken by a multilingual voice that is told to speak French, or Canadian French when you pick it, and asked for native pronunciation.
Script and layout
Latin script, left to right. Titles, captions and the transcript are written in French along with the narration.
Variants in the picker
The picker lists French and Canadian French. Choose Canadian French for Quebec vocabulary and spelling in the script and to name Canadian French to the narrator.
Check before you share
Terms differ between France and Quebec. Pick the entry that matches your audience and check product and legal terms in the first scenes.
Where it is used
Who makes French material like this
Training for France, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada
One master document becomes the French module for every francophone office, with the script adjusted for Canada when you pick Canadian French.
Teams across francophone Africa
Onboarding and product training for teams in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Senegal or Côte d'Ivoire, made from the same source as the English version.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Can my source be in English and the output in French?
Yes. The source and the output do not have to share a language. Upload an English PDF, deck or recording, set the output language to French in the creation panel, and the script, text and narration are written in French. Leave the setting on Auto and Scholarly follows the language of the source instead.
Does it support Canadian French?
Yes. Canadian French is its own entry in the picker: the script follows Quebec vocabulary and spelling, and the narrator is told to speak Canadian French.
Is the French AI podcast generator free?
You can make one episode free: the Free plan includes one lifetime AI Creation Credit, which makes an episode of about 2 minutes in French. Premium includes 15 AI Creation Credits a week, episodes up to 60 minutes and MP3 downloads.
Can I download the French episode as an MP3?
On a paid plan, yes. Premium and Laureate download the episode as an MP3 for podcast apps or as an MP4 of the chapter-slide video. On Free you can stream it in Scholarly and share it by view link.
Is Scholarly's interface available in French?
Yes. Scholarly's interface is available in French: choose Français as your app language in Settings › Appearance › App language, and new accounts open in it when your browser asks for it. What you create has its own output language: pick French once as your default in Settings, or per creation in the language row of the creation panel.
Keep exploring
Other formats in French
Every format below is made from the same uploaded source, so a lecture, an episode and a quiz can share one document.
French: Video lectures
Narrated, chaptered video lectures from PDFs, slides and notes, with French narration and on-screen text.
French: Training videos
Narrated, captioned training modules from SOPs, policies and onboarding handbooks, in French.
French: Flashcards
Editable decks written in French from your material, with spaced-repetition review.
French: Quizzes
Multiple choice, true/false and short-answer questions in French, each with a cited explanation.
See podcasts
The full guide to this format: limits, exports and examples.
Everything Scholarly makes in French
Video lectures, training videos, podcasts, flashcards and quizzes in French, on one page.
Make your first French version from a file you already have
Upload a document, pick French, and review the result before you share it.
Free to start. No credit card required.