Turn slide decks into narrated video lectures

Upload your PowerPoint or PDF slide deck (export Keynote to PowerPoint or PDF first). Scholarly's AI reads each slide, uses speaker notes when present, and generates a narrated video that explains every slide in order, rebuilding the ideas as new animated scenes and reusing figures from your slides where they help.

Yes, to start. The Free plan includes one lifetime AI Creation Credit, shared across every Scholarly tool, and it can make one narrated slides video of about 2 minutes at 720p with Scholarly branding, with no credit card. A free deck can be up to 8 MB and is read up to 32 slides. Watching and sharing by link are free; MP4 download, 1080p, a custom length up to 45 minutes, and 15 AI Creation Credits a week come with Premium.

PowerPoint (.pptx) is the primary format. Keynote (.key) works after exporting to PowerPoint or PDF. Google Slides should be downloaded as .pptx or .pdf first. PDFs of slides - including handout PDFs with multiple slides per page - work too.

Yes. If your deck has speaker notes, the AI uses them as the authoritative source for what each slide is about. Decks with notes produce much more accurate narration than bare slides.

PowerPoint's export plays back narration you recorded yourself (or exports silent timed slides if you didn't record any). Scholarly writes new narration that explains what the bullets mean - like a teacher would - and uses a natural-sounding voice. The result is something you can actually learn from.

A 2-minute video usually takes about 8 to 20 minutes to generate, and longer lectures take longer: about 18 to 40 minutes for a 10-minute video and about 55 to 95 minutes for 45 minutes. It runs on Scholarly's servers, so you can close the tab and come back to the finished video.

Yes. Once your deck is a video lecture, generate flashcards with one click. The AI extracts definitions, frameworks, and key concepts from the slides into a spaced-repetition deck you can study in Scholarly; exporting it to Anki or PDF requires a paid plan.

It is a narrated lecture built from new scenes, not a recording of your slides: a natural voice explains the material while diagrams, charts, equations, and step-by-step builds animate in sync, and the AI can add generated pictures or figures cut from your slides. The video is 16:9 (Short is vertical), split into chapters, with captions you can switch on, a searchable transcript, optional question checkpoints, and AI chat. Standard is the default style; Illustrated, Short, Manim Math Animation, and Freestyle are the other modes.

On the Free plan, a video lecture is a fixed length of about 2 minutes. On Premium and Laureate you set a target length up to 45 minutes before generating (15 minutes is the default), and the lecture is planned to that length, so a long deck gets more chapters rather than a rushed pace. Each video costs 1 AI Creation Credit with the default model, plus 1 extra credit above 15 minutes and 2 extra above 30 minutes. The vertical Short format keeps its own fixed length.

Yes. Download your Google Slides deck as .pptx or .pdf (File → Download), upload it, and Scholarly narrates every slide into a video lecture. Speaker notes carried over from Google Slides are used as the authoritative source for what each slide is about.

Yes. Upload the SOP, process doc, or policy PDF (up to 10 files, or 20 on Laureate) and Scholarly writes a teaching script only from that material, then generates a narrated video with chapters, captions, and a transcript. Review it before rolling it out - it represents your process to your team.

Narration, captions, and the transcript can be generated in 70+ output languages and regional variants, including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Hindi, Arabic, Japanese, and Chinese. The deck and the video do not have to share a language, so English slides can become a Spanish or Arabic lecture. Arabic and Hebrew lectures are laid out right to left, and on-screen text follows the lecture's language.

Yes, on any paid plan. Every plan can share a video by link, and Scholarly for Teams adds shared source libraries and one bill. Premium and Laureate download the finished lecture as an MP4, and turning the Scholarly logo off when you generate gives a watermark-free file; the export pack adds the companion slides PDF (Standard mode), the script, and caption files. On the Free plan you watch the video in Scholarly and share it with a view link that opens in the browser, but download is not included.