Turn your course into a podcast — free, in ten minutes

Some learners will never sit down and read your course. They'll listen to it on a commute, or while walking, or not at all.

You can turn any CourseConverter course into a conversational audio recap — two hosts talking through your material — in about ten minutes, using documents you already export. There's nothing to build, and it costs nothing.

The workflow

Export three documents from your course: the course manual, the facilitator guide, and the resources pack.

Then take them to Google's NotebookLM: create a notebook, upload the three files, open the Studio panel, choose Audio Overview, select the Deep Dive format, and generate.

A few minutes later you have a full episode. An eight-module course produces roughly twenty minutes of conversation.

Here's one we made

This is a twenty-four-minute episode, generated from the three documents above for a course about CourseConverter itself:

Why three documents and not one

You could upload just the manual and it would work. But the three together produce a noticeably better result, and the reason is worth understanding.

The manual is the substance — everything the course teaches, in readable form. The facilitator guide tells the AI what actually matters: the key points, the things worth emphasising, the questions a group would ask. The resources pack gives it the takeaways and the glossary, so the hosts land concepts rather than skimming them.

Give an AI only the content and it summarises. Give it the content and the reasoning about the content, and it discusses.

The caveats nobody mentions

The licensing isn't clear. Google doesn't state whether NotebookLM audio can be redistributed commercially. If you're putting this into a client's paid LMS, or selling it as part of a training programme, check the current terms before you do. Don't assume.

You get two voices, and they're American. No control over accent, age, or tone. If you're delivering to an Australian client, or you need consistency across a series, this won't give it to you.

It's English only, at least for now.

If you need control

Produce the audio yourself instead. ElevenLabs Studio gives you full control over voices and delivery, with commercial terms that are unambiguous — and if you already use ElevenLabs for CourseConverter's AI narration, you have an account. Wondercraft, Descript, and Murf do similar jobs.

Feed them the course manual and direct the performance yourself.

What it's actually for

An audio recap isn't a replacement for the course. It's a different way in — a pre-read before a classroom session, a refresher a month later, something for the people who won't sit at a screen, and a genuine accessibility option for learners who take in audio better than text.

It costs you ten minutes and three documents you were going to export anyway.