Turn any audio into clean, structured notes
Voice memos, seminar recordings, podcasts, interviews, office hours, meetings — upload the file and Scholarly's AI Meeting Notes turns the recording into clean, organized notes you can actually study from.
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Updated June 2026
How do I convert an audio file to notes?
Upload the audio file to Scholarly — MP3, M4A (iPhone voice memos), WAV, WebM, or OGG, plus video files like MP4. Scholarly transcribes it with timestamps, then generates structured notes: headings by topic, definitions, examples, and key takeaways. The transcript stays attached, so you can verify any detail against the original audio, and the notes can become flashcards or a quiz in one click.
- 1Upload the audio file (or a video — Scholarly uses its audio track).
- 2Scholarly transcribes it, then writes organized notes with topic headings and timestamps.
- 3Review the notes, then generate flashcards, a quiz, or ask the AI chat about the recording.
One tool for every recording you collect as a student
If it's spoken and you can save it as a file, Scholarly can turn it into notes.
Voice memos
The 20-minute memo you recorded explaining a topic to yourself before an exam — turned into an outline you can actually revisit.
Lecture recordings
Full class sessions, including 2–3 hour seminars. Get notes organized by topic instead of a wall of raw transcript.
Seminars & tutorials
Discussion-heavy sessions where arguments, counterexamples, and themes matter more than slides.
Podcasts
Course-relevant episodes become structured notes you can search and cite instead of vague memories of "that one episode."
Interviews & fieldwork
Research interviews and oral histories transcribed with speaker turns, then summarized by theme for your write-up.
Office hours & study groups
The places where the real explanations happen — captured, transcribed, and condensed into the points that matter.
What do the notes look like?
Here's the shape of the notes Scholarly generates from a typical recording — a student's 38-minute exam-review voice memo on enzyme kinetics.
enzyme-kinetics-review.m4a
38:12 · voice memo · transcribed and structured by Scholarly
Michaelis–Menten model02:10
- Reaction velocity rises with substrate concentration but saturates at Vmax — the enzyme's active sites become the bottleneck.
- Km is the substrate concentration at half of Vmax; a low Km means high affinity between enzyme and substrate.
- Assumes steady state: the enzyme–substrate complex forms and breaks down at equal rates.
Competitive vs. non-competitive inhibition14:45
- Competitive inhibitors bind the active site — raising substrate concentration can outcompete them, so Vmax is unchanged but apparent Km rises.
- Non-competitive inhibitors bind elsewhere and lower Vmax; extra substrate can't rescue the reaction.
Lineweaver–Burk plots27:30
- Double-reciprocal plot turns the Michaelis–Menten curve into a straight line — easier to read Vmax and Km from intercepts.
- Inhibition types are distinguishable by how the lines pivot: same y-intercept for competitive, same x-intercept for non-competitive.
Every heading keeps its timestamp, so you can jump back to the original audio when a detail matters. From here, one click generates flashcards or a practice quiz from the same recording.
What audio formats can I upload?
MP3, M4A (the format iPhone voice memos use), WAV, WebM, and OGG upload directly. Video files like MP4 and MOV work too — Scholarly transcribes the audio track and ignores the picture. Long files are fine, including multi-hour seminar recordings.
How is Audio to Notes different from transcription?
Transcription gives you the verbatim record — every sentence, in order. Notes are the condensed version: organized by topic, with definitions and takeaways pulled out. If what you mainly need is the verbatim text with timestamps and speaker turns, use Lecture Transcription instead. Audio to Notes runs the same transcription underneath, then does the organizing for you — and keeps the transcript attached either way, so you never lose the source.
How good is the result on messy, rambling audio?
Better than you'd expect, with honest limits. Spoken explanations are naturally repetitive and out of order — that's exactly what the note-generation step fixes, because it organizes by topic rather than by the order things were said. A rambling 40-minute memo usually becomes a tight one-page outline.
What genuinely hurts quality is bad audio, not bad structure: a microphone far from the speaker, heavy crosstalk, or loud background noise degrade the transcript the notes are built on. For anything high-stakes, check critical numbers and terms against the timestamped transcript — it takes seconds, and you're verifying against what was actually said.
What can I do after the notes are generated?
The recording becomes a source in your Scholarly workspace, so everything builds on it without re-uploading: generate spaced-repetition flashcards or a practice quiz from the notes, ask AI Meeting Notes questions and get answers that cite the exact passage of the recording, or combine it with your PDFs and slides into one study set for the exam.
New to the workflow? Our guide on how to turn lecture recordings into study notes walks through every step from capturing the audio to building flashcards and a practice exam.
Audio to notes FAQ
What audio files can I convert to notes?
MP3, M4A, WAV, WebM, and OGG audio files, plus video files like MP4 — Scholarly uses the audio track. That covers voice memos, lecture recordings, seminar audio, podcasts saved as files, and interview recordings.
Do iPhone voice memos work?
Yes. iPhone voice memos are M4A files, which upload directly. Share the memo to your computer or upload it from the phone's browser — no conversion needed.
How long can the audio be?
Multi-hour recordings are fine, including 2–3 hour seminars. Longer files take a bit more time to transcribe, but you don't need to split them.
Does it handle multiple speakers?
Yes. The transcript separates speaker turns, so a seminar discussion, meeting, or interview doesn't collapse into one undifferentiated block of text — which is why AI Meeting Notes works just as well for multi-person study groups and meetings as for a solo voice memo.
What do the generated notes include?
Topic headings with timestamps, definitions of key terms, the examples used in the recording, and a set of takeaways — organized by topic rather than the order things were said. The full transcript stays attached for verification.
Can I make flashcards or a quiz from the audio?
Yes. Once the notes are generated, one click creates spaced-repetition flashcards or a practice quiz from the same recording — no copying text between tools.
What languages are supported?
Scholarly transcribes audio in 70+ languages, and you can generate the notes in a different language than the recording — useful for studying in your second language.
Is Audio to Notes free?
Scholarly is free to start with no credit card required. Paid plans unlock longer files and unlimited uploads.
How do I turn a recording into notes?
Upload the recording to Scholarly — a voice memo, lecture, seminar, podcast, or interview in MP3, M4A, WAV, WebM, OGG, or a video file. Scholarly transcribes it with timestamps, then turns the recording into structured notes: topic headings, definitions, examples, and takeaways. The transcript stays attached so you can verify any detail, and the same recording becomes a source you can build flashcards, a quiz, or cited chat answers from — no copying text between tools.
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