AI Podcast Generator from Your Sources

An AI podcast generator turns written material — like a PDF, lecture transcript, slide deck, article, report, or topic prompt — into a fully voiced audio conversation between two AI hosts. Scholarly writes the script, generates studio-quality voices, and adds chapters and a synced transcript, so students, professionals, and researchers can absorb material by listening instead of re-reading.

Yes. Upload any PDF — a textbook chapter, research paper, lecture slides, a work report, a whitepaper, or your own notes — and Scholarly converts it into a two-host podcast in a few minutes. You can also combine multiple PDFs into one episode, or mix PDFs with images, text files, and YouTube transcripts. It works the same for studying, professional reading, and research review.

Most generated episodes run 8–25 minutes depending on source length and the style you pick. Quick Summary stays under 10 minutes for a fast review; Deep Dive can run longer for a chapter you want to truly internalize. You can re-generate at a different length any time.

70+ languages, including Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Portuguese, and more. You can keep the source in one language and generate the podcast in another — useful for studying or learning a second language.

Yes, it's free to try. The free plan includes a set number of AI creations you can spend on podcasts — no credit card required. Upgrade for ongoing generation, longer episodes, and higher limits.

On paid plans, every podcast can be downloaded as an MP3 for offline listening on any device or podcast app. Everyone can stream episodes and share them via a free link, and the full synced transcript is included with every episode.

NotebookLM is a general-purpose research notebook with one English-leaning conversation style. Scholarly is purpose-built for students: 70+ languages, four conversation styles (Conversational, Exam Prep, Deep Dive, Quick Summary), and the same source can be reused to generate flashcards and quizzes for self-testing in one place.

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, the best AI podcast generator is one that grounds every episode in your own course material instead of generic web content. Scholarly is built specifically for this: it generates two-host episodes from your PDFs, lecture notes, slides, YouTube videos, or any topic; cites your sources with page references; includes a full synced transcript and chapters with every episode; supports 70+ languages; and is free to try — no credit card required.

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.

To make a podcast from a PDF, upload the file — a textbook chapter, research paper, or slide deck exported to PDF — pick a conversation style and language, and Scholarly scripts a two-host episode from the document in a couple of minutes. See the dedicated AI podcast from PDF page for a full walkthrough, or the PDF to Podcast tool to start now.