Turn Your Study Material Into a Short Audio Summary

To generate an audio summary, upload your file or notes to Scholarly, pick a style (Conversational, Exam Prep, or Deep Dive) and a language, then generate. In a few minutes you get a short multi-speaker audio summary that explains the source's key concepts — with chapters, a tap-to-jump transcript, and citations back to the original. It is not text-to-speech reading the file aloud; the hosts explain the material the way a study partner would, and you can download the MP3 or make flashcards from the same material.

No. The audio summary generator extracts the key concepts and writes a short multi-speaker recap about them. A word-for-word read of a 30-page chapter would take over an hour and bury the important parts; the generated summary compresses it to the definitions, mechanisms, and exam-relevant distinctions, with citations back to the source so you can verify anything.

Most summaries run 5 to 25 minutes depending on source length and the length you pick. A 30-page chapter as a tight recap typically becomes a roughly 8-minute audio summary. Deep Dive runs longer. You can regenerate the same material at a different length any time.

Textbook chapters, lecture slides, research papers, PDFs, and your own typed or uploaded notes. For papers, the hosts walk through the research question, method, findings, and limitations in plain language. PDFs are processed up to 1,000 pages on Premium (3,000 on Laureate), and you can combine multiple files into a single audio summary.

Lecture slides work very well because they already highlight what the instructor considers important. Text-based files give the best results; scanned pages work when the text is clearly legible. PDFs are processed up to 1,000 pages on Premium (3,000 on Laureate), and you can combine multiple files into a single summary.

Three AI speakers — a host, a producer, and a guest: the host and producer ask the questions a student would ask, the guest explains. The voices use natural pacing and emphasis rather than flat text-to-speech, and you can generate in 70+ languages.

Honestly, no. Audio summaries are excellent for first exposure and review, but exams reward retrieval, producing answers from memory. Use the summary to understand the chapter, then make flashcards or a practice quiz from the same material to actually test yourself.

Yes. Every plan can stream and share by link; MP3 download for offline listening on any device is available on paid plans, and the transcript is available separately. You can also share a link with classmates, and they can stream it without creating an account.

Yes. The Free plan includes one lifetime AI Creation Credit, which can be a 2-minute audio summary, with no credit card required. Paid plans raise the limits if you are summarizing readings every week.