Turn Anything You're Studying Into a Podcast Worth Replaying

It writes and voices an audio episode from content you provide. Scholarly reads documents, notes, recordings, or videos and produces a three-speaker conversation with Alex as host, Sam as producer, and a Guest. Every episode includes chapters, a transcript, and source citations.

You can start free with no credit card. The Free plan includes one shared lifetime AI creation across Scholarly. It does not reset and can be used to try podcast generation. Premium includes 10 AI creations each week, support for longer source documents, and additional voices.

Yes — this is the most common workflow. Upload a textbook chapter, journal article, or slide PDF and the hosts script the episode from the actual text. Long documents work; the generator handles hundreds of pages per source on higher plans.

Yes. Paste typed notes, upload a document, or add photos of handwritten pages. The AI organizes the episode around the concepts in your notes, so messy formatting doesn't matter. There's a dedicated Notes to Podcast tool if that's your main use case.

Most episodes land between 8 and 12 minutes — long enough to cover a chapter properly, short enough to finish on a commute. You can request a specific length in the custom instructions, from a 3-minute refresher up to a 12-minute deep pass.

Episodes use three speaker roles: Alex hosts, Sam produces, and the Guest brings expertise using the voice selected during creation. The voices use a conversational tone and pace. Voices are matched to the language you choose, and paid plans include additional options.

Over 70 languages. You can study a source written in English and generate the episode in Spanish, Japanese, Hindi, Portuguese, or your own language — the transcript and captions follow the episode language.

Every plan can stream and share the audio or synchronized chapter-slide video. On a paid plan, download an MP3 for podcast apps or a 16:9 MP4 for offline use and publishing.

NotebookLM's Audio Overviews are excellent for a one-off audio summary, and if that's all you need, they're a fine free option. Scholarly's differences are study-specific: four episode styles including Exam Prep, 70+ languages, citations with page references, and a study loop — flashcards, quizzes, and AI chat generated from the same source as the episode.

Yes to both. Paste a YouTube link or upload an AI Meeting Notes source, and the generator produces a shorter, structured episode from it — useful for compressing a 50-minute recording into the 10 minutes you actually need to review.

The episode is scripted from your uploaded source rather than from the model's general knowledge, and claims carry citations back to the document so you can verify them. No AI system is perfect, so for high-stakes facts — drug dosages, legal rules, exam-critical numbers — click the citation and check the page. That one-click check is exactly why the citations exist.

You can start from just a topic description and get a solid episode. That said, source-grounded episodes are consistently better for studying because they cover what your course covers — your professor's emphasis, your textbook's notation — instead of a generic overview of the subject.

Yes. Free includes one shared lifetime AI creation that can make a three-speaker episode from a PDF, notes, or a lecture. The credit does not reset. Premium adds 10 AI creations each week, longer sources, and more voices. No credit card is required.

The best AI podcast generator for studying is the one that works from your real course material and connects audio to self-testing, not a generic topic show. Scholarly scripts episodes from your uploaded PDFs, slides, notes, and lectures with page citations, offers an Exam Prep style, and turns the same source into flashcards and quizzes. NotebookLM's Audio Overviews are excellent for one-off summaries; Scholarly is built around the full study loop, so listening leads into retrieval practice.

Yes. While the audio is generated, a research agent studies the same chapters, searches the web, and writes timestamped Producer Notes — researched context with cited, validated links pinned to the moments they refer to. You can jump the player to a note, open its sources, or send it into the episode chat. Each episode also includes a curated Related Resources list for going beyond your source.