ɪt wʌz kəmˈɪʃənd baɪ dˈɑːɹpə ænd kˈɔːɹpəs dɪzˈaɪn wʌzɐ dʒˈɔɪnt ˈɛfɚt bᵻtwˌiːn ðə mˌæsɐtʃˈuːsɪts ˈɪnstɪtˌuːt ʌv tɛknˈɑːlədʒi, sɹˌiː ˌɪntɚnˈæʃənəl, ænd tˈɛksəs ˈɪnstɹəmənts tˌiːˈaɪ.
It was commissioned by DARPA and corpus design was a joint effort between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SRI International, and Texas Instruments (TI).