Japanese AI podcast generator
Turn a PDF, report or recording into a three-speaker podcast episode in Japanese, with chapters, a transcript in Japanese 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 Japanese?
Yes. Upload the document, set the output language to Japanese, and Scholarly scripts a conversation between a host, a producer and a guest from your source. All three speak Japanese, 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 Japanese 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 Japanese is handled: Every voice is multilingual and follows Japanese. The source can stay in English; the conversation is written in Japanese. Narration is spoken by a multilingual voice that is told to speak Japanese instead of guessing the language from the text, and asked to read numbers and units the way a native speaker says them.
Updated October 2026
Sample
How an episode sounds in Japanese
Host
では、新入社員にとって最初の1週間で実際に何が変わるのでしょうか？
Guest
一人でお客様の電話に対応する前に、3日間ベテランの先輩について仕事を学びます。
Illustrative sample written for this page to show the format. Your output is written from your own files.
How it works
From document to Japanese podcast episode
- 01
Add the source
Upload a PDF, report, deck or recording. Combine sources when the topic spans several files.
- 02
Choose Japanese and a style
Set the output language to Japanese 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 Japanese
What changes when the output language is Japanese, taken from how the speech and rendering pipeline actually works.
Voice
Narration is spoken by a multilingual voice that is told to speak Japanese instead of guessing the language from the text, and asked to read numbers and units the way a native speaker says them.
Script and layout
Kanji, kana and English terms render on every scene with a font that covers Japanese, and captions and the transcript are in Japanese.
Variants in the picker
The picker has one Japanese entry, and Japanese is also one of Scholarly's interface languages.
Check before you share
Check the readings of personal names, company names and uncommon kanji in the first scenes; add a reading in the instructions if one is misread.
Where it is used
Who makes Japanese material like this
Training for teams in Japan
Turn English manuals and decks from a global head office into Japanese training modules, or the other way round.
Certification study
Turn textbooks and past-exam notes into Japanese lectures, flashcards and practice questions for professional certifications.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Can my source be in English and the output in Japanese?
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 Japanese in the creation panel, and the script, text and narration are written in Japanese. Leave the setting on Auto and Scholarly follows the language of the source instead.
Can I turn an English document into Japanese material?
Yes. Pick Japanese as the output language and the lecture, episode, cards or quiz are written in Japanese from the English source. The reverse works too: a Japanese document can become English material.
Is the Japanese 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 Japanese. Premium includes 15 AI Creation Credits a week, episodes up to 60 minutes and MP3 downloads.
Can I download the Japanese 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 Japanese?
Yes. Scholarly's interface is available in Japanese: choose 日本語 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 Japanese once as your default in Settings, or per creation in the language row of the creation panel.
Keep exploring
Other formats in Japanese
Every format below is made from the same uploaded source, so a lecture, an episode and a quiz can share one document.
Japanese: Video lectures
Narrated, chaptered video lectures from PDFs, slides and notes, with Japanese narration and on-screen text.
Japanese: Training videos
Narrated, captioned training modules from SOPs, policies and onboarding handbooks, in Japanese.
Japanese: Flashcards
Editable decks written in Japanese from your material, with spaced-repetition review.
Japanese: Quizzes
Multiple choice, true/false and short-answer questions in Japanese, each with a cited explanation.
See podcasts
The full guide to this format: limits, exports and examples.
Everything Scholarly makes in Japanese
Video lectures, training videos, podcasts, flashcards and quizzes in Japanese, on one page.
Make your first Japanese version from a file you already have
Upload a document, pick Japanese, and review the result before you share it.
Free to start. No credit card required.