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Lisa Lacy

Lead AI Writer

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CNET, Campaign US, PRWeek

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Lisa Lacy is the Lead AI Writer for CNET. With a focus on technology and advertising, Lisa's articles cover topics such as customer experience, brand campaigns, Super Bowl commercials, and the latest advancements in artificial intelligence. Her work has been featured in various publications including Digiday, Adweek, PRWeek, Campaign (UK), and Richland Source.

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Coverage Attributes:

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Press Release: 29 %
Cites Data: 17 %
Review: 9 %
Event Coverage: 8 %
Seasonal: 8 %

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Most Recent Topics:

  • AI Technology
  • OpenAI
  • Google
  • Apple
  • Chatbots
  • Data Analysis

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Lisa Lacy's coverage primarily focuses on advertising, marketing campaigns, and industry trends. She frequently features press releases, seasonal content, and data citations in her articles.

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CNET

iPadOS 17 Revealed at WWDC 2023 iPadOS 17 Revealed at WWDC 2023 iPadOS 17 Revealed at WWDC 2023 Video Player is loading. This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color Opacity Text Background Color Opacity Caption Area Background Color Opacity Font Size Text Edge Style Font Family End of dialog window. This is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button. This is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button. This AI Startup Wants You to Read Audiobooks to Yourself The text-to-speech reading tool is challenging a $2 billion industry. Lisa Lacy Lead AI Writer Lisa joined CNET after more than 20 years as a reporter and editor. Career highlights include a 2020 story about problematic brand mascots, which preceded historic name changes, and going viral in 2021 after daring to ask, "Why are cans of cranberry sauce labeled upside-down?" She has interviewed celebrities like Serena Williams, Brian Cox and Tracee Ellis Ross. Anna Kendrick said her name sounds like a character from Beverly Hills, 90210. Rick Astley asked if she knew what Rickrolling was. She lives outside Atlanta with her son, two golden retrievers and two cats. Expertise Technology | AI | Advertising | Retail Lisa Lacy July 1, 2024 5:00 a.m. PT 3 min read AI startup Speechify is putting its own spin on audiobooks and giving you, the listener, a leading role. You get to be the star if you want. You can import your own voice to make an AI clone and then listen to text with your voice or your girlfriend's, as in the case of CEO Cliff Weitzman. You can also choose from celebrities like Snoop Dogg and Gwyneth Paltrow, who have signed on to add their voices as options. The twist being these are AI generated, not the celebs themselves reading. "You can just pick your own voices and that's a great experience," Weitzman said. It's this ability to choose whatever voice you want and to turn any book into an audiobook that Weitzman argued sets Speechify apart from titans of industry like Apple Books, Audible and Spotify. Audiobooks are a hot commodity. According to the Audio Publishers Association, 2023 marked the 12th consecutive year of sales growth, with a total of about $2 billion for the year. The APA also found 52% of US adults have listened to audiobooks at some point, which is equivalent to about 150 million people. With artificial intelligence, and especially generative AI, exerting its influence far and wide, we're seeing entrepreneurs seek to harness the technology to challenge the status quo in a variety of industries, from law to medicine and even generative AI itself. Seven-year-old Speechify is positioning its text-to-speech reading tool as an alternative to traditional audiobooks through the use of AI-generated human voices. As a child with dyslexia, Weitzman relied on his parents to read books aloud to him. But when he got to college, he couldn't find audio versions of his textbooks, so he built a program to read to him using deep learning, an AI technique that teaches computers to process data like the human brain does, and what's known as concatenative text-to-speech, a form of speech generation that taps into pre-recorded samples of speech. The native Hebrew speaker also included the ability to change the speed -- a feature Speechify retains today. "When I started out, I didn't speak English, so I would listen to everything at 0.75x speed and then with time I increased to 1x,1.25x, 1.5x, 2x, 3x," he said. "If a sentence was easy to understand, I'd make it really fast. If the sentence was hard, I'd make it really slow." Weitzman's brother Tyler joined as a co-founder in 2018 and has served as head of AI and president since 2022. Tyler Weitzman helped develop the algorithm that eventually became the first version of Speechify. It was trained on 100,000 hours of audio so the reading voice sounded human. As the product improved, the startup signed partnerships with celebrities to use their voices as well. Speechify can read books, documents and articles on a mobile device. To use it, you can upload a PDF to the web app, which adds the audio to your mobile app, or you can download the Chrome extension to listen to text from Google Drive, iCloud or Dropbox. A limited version of Speechify is free. It includes six reading voices to start and you can listen at speeds up to 1x. These voice options include computer-generated US males named Nate and John, as well as Stephanie, a female voice from the UK, along with Snoop Dogg, Gwyneth Paltrow and US Youtuber Mr. Beast. I picked Stephanie, and then the app told me more than 100 voices would also be available in the app. (You then have to listen to a roughly minute-long sales pitch in your chosen voice before proceeding.) Speechify Premium, which costs $11.67 per month per user, has 250-plus reading voices and 50-plus languages and you can listen at up to 4.5x. Speechify has 40 million users, according to Cliff Weitzman. (However, the app itself says 23-plus million people use Speechify while you're signing up.) The startup is reportedly backed by $4.5 million from an early-stage venture capital round in 2020. The company declined to comment on funding. This is one of a series of short profiles of AI startups, to help you get a handle on the landscape of artificial intelligence activity going on. For more on AI, see our new AI Atlas hub, which includes product reviews, news, tips and explainers. Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. 6 Foods You Should Never Cook in the Air Fryer Learn from my mistakes and never put these foods in the air fryer. David Watsky Senior Editor / Home and Kitchen David lives in Brooklyn where he's spent more than a decade covering all things edible, including meal kit services, food subscriptions, kitchen tools and cooking tips. Before, during and after earning his BA from Northeastern, he toiled in nearly every aspect of the food business, including as a line cook in Rhode Island where he once made a steak sandwich for Lamar Odom. Right now he's likely somewhere stress-testing a blender or tinkering with a toaster. Anything with sesame is his all-time favorite food this week. Expertise Kitchen tools | Appliances | Food science | Subscriptions | Meal kits David Watsky June 29, 2024 12:20 p.m. PT 2 min read The has become my go-to cooking method for , many of which I in the speedy countertop cooker. Even with all its versatility, there are still some foods the air fryer just doesn't handle well. While the air fryer blasts chicken thighs, potato wedges, filets and even to crispy-outside, juice-inside perfection, the air fryer's style of super hot fast-moving air is too intense for other foods. Certain recipes that require precision cooking, low and slow temps or a proper sear are not a good fit to be cooked by the mighty air fryer. Before you start throwing fancy cuts of steak and bags of spinach in the air fryer, head my advice: The air fryer is great for cooking a lot of things but not everything. Here are six foods I'll never cook in the air fryer. Spinach and leafy greens Leafy greens are a big no when it comes to air-fryer cooking. The hot convection air will crisp most leafy greens such as spinach, kale and chard far beyond anything you'd want to eat. Steak reheats well in the air fryer, but it's not a good place for it the first time. Air fryer baskets get hot but not hot enough to give the outside of your steak a proper sear. I've tried cooking steaks in the air fryer before. Even fatty, forgiving steaks don't come out as well compared to when they're cooking on a hot plancha, or . Unbreaded chicken breasts Chicken wings, thighs and any bone-in pieces are perfect candidates for the air fryer. Boneless chicken breasts, however, don't have much fat and will dry out easily. Protect them with a little egg batter and breadcrumbs and you'll be OK, but bare chicken breasts cooked in the air fryer often emerge dry or rubbery. Large cuts of meat Large cuts of beef, pork and lamb typically do best when cooked with a low and slow method such as braising or . Avoid the air fryer with its hot blast of convection air when cooking large cuts of meat and opt for the , slow cooker or pellet smoker. Uncovered broccoli If you wrap your broccoli in foil, you can use the air fryer to roast it -- and quickly. But leave it uncovered and exposed to the hot convection air and you'll end up with sizzled broccoli ends that are anything but delicious. Shellfish Shellfish such as clams and mussels need liquid to cook without drying out. They are also easily overcooked, which can lead to a chewy rubbery morsel that you don't want anywhere near your plate. Avoid the air fryer when cooking most shellfish. If you're looking for a great air fryer, here are for 2024. And these are the for 2024.

iPadOS 17 Revealed at WWDC 2023 iPadOS 17 Revealed at WWDC 2023 iPadOS 17 Revealed at WWDC 2023 Video Player is loading. This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color Opacity Text Background Color Opacity Caption Area Background Color Opacity Font Size Text Edge Style Font Family End of dialog window. This is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button. This is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button. This AI Startup Wants You to Read Audiobooks to Yourself The text-to-speech reading tool is challenging a $2 billion industry. Lisa Lacy Lead AI Writer Lisa joined CNET after more than 20 years as a reporter and editor. Career highlights include a 2020 story about problematic brand mascots, which preceded historic name changes, and going viral in 2021 after daring to ask,
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