Language Line Services
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Language Line Services is an American company headquartered in Monterey, Calif., which provides language interpretation and translation
services worldwide for law enforcement, healthcare organizations, the courts and businesses in over 170 languages.
The company handles the majority of the over-the-phone interpretations for 911 emergency calls nationwide (about 90 percent). Language Line Services is the largest interpretation services provider in the world.
San Jose, Calif., policeman Jeff Munks founded Language Line Services in 1982 to help fellow officers communicate with 65,000 Vietnamese refugees.
The company employs approximately 5,000 interpreters and support staff globally who answer 40 million calls each year.
Louis F. Provenzano, Jr., was named CEO on February 1, 2011. He previously served as president and COO. He replaced Dennis Dracup who had served as CEO since 1999. Dracup remains on the board. http://louisprovenzano.wordpress.com/2011/01/
The company provides the following services:
Translation
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...
services worldwide for law enforcement, healthcare organizations, the courts and businesses in over 170 languages.
The company handles the majority of the over-the-phone interpretations for 911 emergency calls nationwide (about 90 percent). Language Line Services is the largest interpretation services provider in the world.
San Jose, Calif., policeman Jeff Munks founded Language Line Services in 1982 to help fellow officers communicate with 65,000 Vietnamese refugees.
The company employs approximately 5,000 interpreters and support staff globally who answer 40 million calls each year.
Louis F. Provenzano, Jr., was named CEO on February 1, 2011. He previously served as president and COO. He replaced Dennis Dracup who had served as CEO since 1999. Dracup remains on the board. http://louisprovenzano.wordpress.com/2011/01/
The company provides the following services:
- Telephone interpretingTelephone interpretingTelephone interpreting is a service that connects human interpreters via telephone to individuals who wish to speak to each other but do not share a common language. The telephone interpreter converts the spoken language from one language to another, enabling listeners and speakers to understand...
- On-site interpretation
- Video interpretation
- Document translation
- Training