Settings

Access Settings from the sidebar or your profile menu. Scholarly lets you customize how the platform looks, sounds, and behaves.

Profile

• Name and email -- Update your display name and email address.
• Profile picture -- Upload a photo or avatar.

AI Voice Preference

Choose between a Male or Female AI voice. This setting affects:

• Voice mode -- The voice used during live AI conversations.
• Video lectures -- The narration voice for generated video lectures.

Change your voice at any time from Settings or directly from the voice bar during a conversation.

Voice Playback Speed

Adjust how fast the AI speaks during voice mode. Choose from 1x, 1.25x, 1.5x, or 2x speed. Change the playback speed from the voice bar during a conversation.

AI Assistant Instructions

Add custom instructions that apply to every AI conversation. For example: "Always explain concepts at a college freshman level" or "Include examples from biology when possible." These instructions persist across all your chat sessions.

Skills

The Skills tab lets you manage your custom slash commands. From here you can:

• Create new skills — Add a name, set the /command, and write the prompt the AI should follow.
• Edit existing skills — Update the title or prompt of any skill you have created.
• Delete skills — Remove skills you no longer use.
• Import skills — Load skills from .md files.

The tab separates your custom skills from built-in predefined skills (like /summary and /study-guide), which are locked and cannot be modified. See the Slash Commands guide for more details.

Connected Apps

Link outside accounts so the AI can work with information you already have. Connect Google Workspace to let AI Chat search your Google Drive files and Google Calendar events. You can connect more than one account, set a default, and disconnect at any time. See the Connected Apps guide.

Theme

Switch between Light and Dark mode. The entire app adapts to your choice, including the editor, chat, study mode, and all content pages.

Notifications

Control which email notifications you receive:

• Video lecture completion -- Get an email when a generated video is ready.
• Podcast completion -- Get an email when a generated podcast is ready.
• AI Slides completion -- Get an email when generated slides are ready.

Accessibility

• Reduced motion -- Minimize animations throughout the app.
• Keyboard shortcuts reference -- View a summary of available shortcuts for study mode and navigation.