LanguageLine Solutions

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.

The company employs approximately 5,000 interpreters and support staff globally who answer 40 million calls each year.

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. In 2004, ABRY Partners acquired Language Line Solutions from Providence and is still owned by them as of 05/09/2014.

Scott W. Klein was named CEO on June 21, 2012.

On January 7, 2013, Language Line Solutions acquired Pacific Interpreters.

On August 22, 2016, Teleperformance announced their plan to buy LanguageLine for $1.52 billion, expecting the deal to close by the end of 2016.

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