CyraCom Language Solutions
{{Infobox company
| logo = CyraCom Language Solutions logo.svg
| industry = Language services
| founder = Kevin J. Carey and Mark Myers
| website = {{URL|cyracom.com}}
}}{{Short description|US Translation and Interpretation Services Company}}
CyraCom International, Inc. is an American language services company that provides over the phone and video interpretation and language assessment services. It is the largest provider of telephone interpretation services in the United States.{{cite news|url=http://triblive.com/business/headlines/6764819-74/language-hospital-interpreters|title=Hospitals turn to technology to tear down language barriers with patients|last1=Nixon|first1=Alex|date=September 20, 2014|work=Trib Live|access-date=November 21, 2018}}
The company is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona.{{Cite web |title=TREND$ - Tucson Citizen Morgue, Part 2 (1993-2009) |url=https://tucsoncitizen.com/morgue2/1998/08/31/189220-trend/ |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=tucsoncitizen.com}}
History
CyraCom was originally founded as Kevmark Industries in 1995 by Kevin J. Carey and Mark Myers.{{Cite journal |title=Biz Tucson |url=https://suncorridorinc.com/wp-content/uploads/biztucson-entrepreneurial-section.pdf |journal=BizTucson |via=suncorridorinc.com}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V3fABgAAQBAJ&dq=%22CyraCom%22&pg=PT364|title=The Routledge Handbook of Interpreting|last1=Mikkelson|first1=Holly|last2=Jourdenais|first2=Renée|publisher=Routledge|year=2015|isbn=9781317595014}}{{cite web|url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US5784456|title=US5784456A - Single-line multi-handset telephone|website=Google Patents|access-date=November 21, 2018}} Myers and co-founder Kevin Carey built a prototype with two handsets connected to a single base, allowing both patients and providers to speak to an interpreter on a three-way call without passing a handset back and forth.{{cite news|url=http://tucsoncitizen.com/morgue2/1998/08/31/189220-trend/|title=CyraCom translates to success|last1=Cohen|first1=Lorrie|date=August 31, 1998|work=Tucson Citizen|access-date=November 21, 2018|publisher=Tucson Citizen}} The device later became known as the CyraPhone.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/16/business/responsible-party-michael-d-greenbaum-saying-ah-in-any-tongue.html|title=Responsible Party - Michael D. Greenbaum; Saying 'Ah' in Any Tongue|last1=Dunn|first1=Julie|date=March 16, 2003|work=The New York Times|access-date=October 3, 2017}}
The company name was changed to CyraCom in 1997, named for Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. It operates call centers and offices in the United States with one office in the United Kingdom, and another in Costa Rica. Cyracom provides interpreters for hundreds of languages.{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/oracle/2015/10/22/cyracoms-growing-interpretation-business-turns-to-cloud-erp/|title=CyraCom's Growing Interpretation Business Turns To Cloud ERP|last1=Murphy|first1=Chris|date=October 22, 2015|work=Forbes|access-date=November 21, 2018}}{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/translators-hire-300-new-flushing-office-article-1.2098458|title=Health care translators to fill more than 300 positions for new Flushing office|last1=Salinger|first1=Tobias|date=February 1, 2015|work=New York Daily News|access-date=November 21, 2018}}
CyraCom acquired Washington, D.C. based Language Learning Enterprises in January 2010.{{Cite web |date=2010-01-29 |title=CyraCom buying another language translation firm |url=https://www.insidetucsonbusiness.com/news/cyracom-buying-another-language-translation-firm/article_78294ae2-3b2f-58fc-b3a4-2dfaf96e49e4.html |access-date=2025-03-07 |website=Inside Tucson Business |language=en}}
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