Turn Any Text Into a Natural-Sounding Podcast

Paste text or upload a document, then choose a style, target length, and language. Scholarly creates a conversation between a host, an expert guest, and a producer that defines terms, works through examples, and connects ideas from the text. Each episode includes a synced transcript and listening check-in questions. Runtime varies.

Yes. Scholarly podcasts are cited: each episode lists the sources it was built from in its Sources tab. For a text episode that is the text or document you added, plus any other sources you combined with it, so you can go back to the original and check anything that sounds off.

Yes. Paste any block of text straight in — an article, your notes, a chapter, an abstract, a transcript — or upload a document instead. Text copied from Google Docs, Notion, OneNote, a web page, or any plain-text editor all works.

English episodes are voiced from a catalog of 10 voices, and episodes in other languages from a catalog of 30 multilingual voices. You can pick the guest's voice or let Scholarly choose; the host and producer are cast from the same catalog, and each speaker is named after its voice. The language picker offers 71 output languages and regional variants, and the episode does not have to be in the same language as the source.

Both turn your sources into an AI conversation. Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) Audio Overviews use two hosts (one speaker in the Brief format), offer Deep Dive, Brief, Critique, and Debate formats in 80+ languages with Shorter, Default, and Longer lengths (Longer is English only), include an English voice join-in mode, and let you download the audio. Scholarly uses a host, an expert guest, and a producer, lets you pick the guest's voice, sets a paid target length up to 60 minutes, and adds chapters, a searchable transcript, timestamped Producer Notes with researched links, and a chapter-slide video. Scholarly episodes are cited: each one lists the sources it was built from in its Sources tab. Scholarly downloads need a paid plan, and its language picker has 71 options.

Yes. Paste or upload multiple passages on the same topic — for example an article plus your notes on it — and Scholarly weaves them into one coherent episode. Adding a second source is also the fix when one piece of text is too thin on its own.

Free episodes are about 2 minutes. On Premium and Laureate you set a target from 5 to 60 minutes in 5-minute steps, with 15 minutes as the default; the target guides the script, so the final runtime can vary. A target over 15 minutes costs 1 extra AI Creation Credit, and over 30 minutes 2 extra.

Yes, on a paid plan. Premium and Laureate can download the MP3, or an MP4 of the chapter-slide video. Every plan, including Free, gets a synced transcript, captions, streaming, and link sharing.

No. A text-to-speech reader narrates the words. Scholarly creates a discussion between a host, an expert guest, and a producer that defines terms, works through examples, and connects ideas.

Yes, to start. The Free plan includes one lifetime AI Creation Credit shared across Scholarly. Spent on a podcast, it makes one episode of about 2 minutes from one source (uploads up to 8 MB, the first 32 PDF pages), which you can stream and share by link. The credit does not reset, and downloads need a paid plan. Premium ($30/mo or $144/yr in the US) includes 15 AI Creation Credits each week. No credit card is required to start.