Pentagon Software Stores and Transcribes Thousands of Phone Calls at Once The project has the euphemistic name of “Blending Crowdsourcing for Fast, Cheap and Accurate Analysis of Spontaneous Speech,” and it is being funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. Wired magazine reported that the computer scientist being paid the $300,000 is Matt Lease of the University of Texas. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/03/darpa-speech/