- Audiogrep
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In 1993, Apple released the Newton MessagePad, the first so-called "Personal Digital Assistant". A kind of forerunner to today's smart phones, the device worked as a kind of digital notepad, allowing free form entry of both text and drawing mixed together on the same virtual page. The user wrote with a plastic pen- like stylus, the movements digitized and converted into "electronic ink" and each note stamped with a date and time. The devices handwriting recognition converted the user's writing into text on-the-fly, a famously buggy process that became (to Apple's chagrin) synonymous with the product. However, with some practice and patience, the device was said to "learn" from its user, and (more effectively) a compliant user could adapt his or her own writing to the device. Erkki was a natural for this kind of digital symbiosis and gave himself over fully to the machine.
Audio grep is the result of searching Erkki's Newton diary entries for phrases containing a particular term, and reading them with a text to speech algorithm.
- Listen to the occurences of the word sleep
- Listen to the occurences of the word newton
- Occurences of the word newton (text output)
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