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.
- 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 uses a French voice. Canadian French is a separate picker entry for the script and is read with the same French voice.
- What each plan gets: Free makes one episode of about 2 minutes, streamed and shared by link. Premium adds 15 AI Creation Credits a week, episodes up to 60 minutes and MP3 and MP4 downloads.
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 uses a French voice. Canadian French is a separate picker entry for the script and is read with the same French voice.
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.
Check before you share
Quebec audiences will hear a standard French voice even when the script uses Canadian French. Check terms that differ between the two.
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?
For the script, yes: Canadian French is its own entry in the picker. Narration uses the same French voice for both entries today.
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?
Not yet. The app itself is in English or Japanese, but what you create can be in French: pick it once as your default output language 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.