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LanguageLine Solutions, formerly known as Language Line Services, is an American company headquartered in Monterey, California. It provides language interpretation and document translation services worldwide for law enforcement, healthcare organizations, legal courts and businesses in over 200 languages. The company handles the majority of the over-the-phone interpretations for 9-1-1 emergency calls nationwide (about 90 percent). LanguageLine is the largest interpretation services provider in the world.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.certifiedmedicalinterpreters.org/national_board )〕 The company employs approximately 5,000 interpreters and support staff globally who answer 40 million calls each year. ==Company history== In its earlier years, the company was known as CALL (Communication And Language Line) and was formed by Jeff Munks and Michael McFerrin. Jeff Munks was a San Jose, California, policeman Michael McFerrin mastered the Vietnamese language as a US Marine stationed in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. He returned to Northern California and worked as a refugee advocate. The two men founded Language Line Services in 1982 to help police officers communicate with 65,000 Vietnamese refugees. AT&T officially announced the inauguration of its 24-hour AT&T Language Line Service on February 14, 1990, providing on-line interpreters in more than 140 languages and dialects. McFerrin stayed on as operations manager and Munks as marketing manager of AT&T Language Line. Providence Equity acquired Language Line Services from AT&T in 1999.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher= Providence Equity )〕 In 2004, ABRY Partners acquired Language Line Solutions from Providence and is still owned by them as of 05/09/2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Investments: Portfolio )〕 Scott W. Klein was named CEO on June 21, 2012. On January 7, 2013, Language Line Solutions acquired Pacific Interpreters.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LanguageLine Solutions Acquires Pacific Interpreters in New Year’s Deal )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「LanguageLine Solutions」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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