EXHIBIT 10.1

NEITHER THESE SECURITIES NOR THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THESE
SECURITIES HAVE BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR
THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM
REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES
ACT"), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN
EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN
AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE
SECURITIES LAWS AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR TO
SUCH EFFECT, THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH SHALL BE REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE
COMPANY. THESE SECURITIES AND THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THESE
SECURITIES MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT SECURED
BY SUCH SECURITIES.

                             DIGITAL RECORDERS, INC.

                                     WARRANT

Warrant No. 2004-12                          Original Issue Date: April 26, 2004

         Digital Recorders, Inc., a North Carolina corporation (the "COMPANY"),
hereby certifies that, for value received, Roth Capital Partners, LLC or its
registered assigns (the "HOLDER"), is entitled to purchase from the Company up
to a total of 62,500 shares of Common Stock (each such share, a "WARRANT Share"
and all such shares, the "WARRANT SHARES"), at any time and from time to time
from and after the six month anniversary of the date hereof and through and
including April 26, 2009 (the "EXPIRATION DATE"), and subject to the following
terms and conditions:

         1. Definitions. As used in this Warrant, the following terms shall have
the respective definitions set forth in this Section 1. Capitalized terms that
are used and not defined in this Warrant that are defined in the Purchase
Agreement (as defined below) shall have the respective definitions set forth in
the Purchase Agreement.

         "BUSINESS DAY" means any day except Saturday, Sunday and any day that
is a federal legal holiday in the United States or a day on which banking
institutions in the State of New York are authorized or required by law or other
government action to close.

         "COMMON STOCK" means the common stock of the Company, par value $0.10
per share, and any securities into which such common stock may hereafter be
reclassified.

         "EXERCISE PRICE" means $10.25, subject to adjustment in accordance with
Section 9.




         "ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE" means the Original Issue Date first set forth on
the first page of this Warrant.

         "NEW YORK COURTS" means the state and federal courts sitting in the
City of New York, Borough of Manhattan.

         "PURCHASE AGREEMENT" means the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated
April 21, 2004, to which the Company and the original Holder are parties.

         "TRADING DAY" means (i) a day on which the Common Stock is traded on a
Trading Market (other than the OTC Bulletin Board), or (ii) if the Common Stock
is not listed on a Trading Market (other than the OTC Bulletin Board), a day on
which the Common Stock is traded in the over-the-counter market, as reported by
the OTC Bulletin Board, or (iii) if the Common Stock is not quoted on any
Trading Market, a day on which the Common Stock is quoted in the
over-the-counter market as reported by the National Quotation Bureau
Incorporated (or any similar organization or agency succeeding to its functions
of reporting prices); provided, that in the event that the Common Stock is not
listed or quoted as set forth in (i), (ii) and (iii) hereof, then Trading Day
shall mean a Business Day.

         2. Registration of Warrant. The Company shall register this Warrant
upon records to be maintained by the Company for that purpose (the "WARRANT
REGISTER"), in the name of the record Holder hereof from time to time. The
Company may deem and treat the registered Holder of this Warrant as the absolute
owner hereof for the purpose of any exercise hereof or any distribution to the
Holder, and for all other purposes, absent actual notice to the contrary.

         3. Registration of Transfers. The Company shall register the transfer
of any portion of this Warrant in the Warrant Register, upon surrender of this
Warrant, with the Form of Assignment attached hereto duly completed and signed,
to the Company at its address specified herein. Upon any such registration or
transfer, a new Warrant to purchase Common Stock, in substantially the form of
this Warrant (any such new Warrant, a "NEW WARRANT"), evidencing the portion of
this Warrant so transferred shall be issued to the transferee and a New Warrant
evidencing the remaining portion of this Warrant not so transferred, if any,
shall be issued to the transferring Holder. The acceptance of the New Warrant by
the transferee thereof shall be deemed the acceptance by such transferee of all
of the rights and obligations of a holder of a Warrant.

         4. Exercise and Duration of Warrants. This Warrant shall be exercisable
by the registered Holder at any time and from time to time from and after the
six month anniversary of the date hereof and through and including the
Expiration Date. At 6:30 p.m., New York City time on the Expiration Date, the
portion of this Warrant not exercised prior thereto shall be and become void and
of no value. The Company may not call or redeem any portion of this Warrant
without the prior written consent of the affected Holder.

         5. Delivery of Warrant Shares.

                  (a) To effect exercises hereunder, the Holder shall not be
required to physically surrender this Warrant unless the aggregate Warrant
Shares represented by this Warrant is being exercised. Upon delivery of the
Exercise Notice (in the form attached hereto)


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to the Company (with the attached Warrant Shares Exercise Log) at its address
for notice set forth herein and upon payment of the Exercise Price multiplied by
the number of Warrant Shares that the Holder intends to purchase hereunder, the
Company shall promptly (but in no event later than three Trading Days after the
Date of Exercise (as defined herein)) issue and deliver to the Holder, a
certificate for the Warrant Shares issuable upon such exercise, which, unless
otherwise required by the Purchase Agreement, shall be free of restrictive
legends. The Company shall, upon request of the Holder and subsequent to the
date on which a registration statement covering the resale of the Warrant Shares
has been declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission, use its
reasonable best efforts to deliver Warrant Shares hereunder electronically
through the Depository Trust Corporation or another established clearing
corporation performing similar functions, if available, provided, that, the
Company may, but will not be required to change its transfer agent if its
current transfer agent cannot deliver Warrant Shares electronically through the
Depository Trust Corporation. A "DATE OF EXERCISE" means the date on which the
Holder shall have delivered to the Company: (i) the Exercise Notice (with the
Warrant Exercise Log attached to it), appropriately completed and duly signed
and (ii) if such Holder is not utilizing the cashless exercise provisions set
forth in this Warrant, payment of the Exercise Price for the number of Warrant
Shares so indicated by the Holder to be purchased.

                  (b) If by the third Trading Day after a Date of Exercise the
Company fails to deliver the required number of Warrant Shares in the manner
required pursuant to Section 5(a), then the Holder will have the right to
rescind such exercise.

                  (c) If by the third Trading Day after a Date of Exercise the
Company fails to deliver the required number of Warrant Shares in the manner
required pursuant to Section 5(a), and if after such third Trading Day and prior
to the receipt of such Warrant Shares, the Holder purchases (in an open market
transaction or otherwise) shares of Common Stock to deliver in satisfaction of a
sale by the Holder of the Warrant Shares which the Holder anticipated receiving
upon such exercise (a "BUY-IN"), then the Company shall (1) pay in cash to the
Holder the amount by which (x) the Holder's total purchase price (including
brokerage commissions, if any) for the shares of Common Stock so purchased
exceeds (y) the amount obtained by multiplying (A) the number of Warrant Shares
that the Company was required to deliver to the Holder in connection with the
exercise at issue by (B) the closing bid price of the Common Stock on the date
of the sale giving rise to such purchase obligation and (2) at the option of the
Holder, either reinstate the portion of the Warrant and equivalent number of
Warrant Shares for which such exercise was not honored or deliver to the Holder
the number of shares of Common Stock that would have been issued had the Company
timely complied with its exercise and delivery obligations hereunder. The Holder
shall provide the Company written notice indicating the amounts payable to the
Holder in respect of the Buy-In.

                  (d) The Company's obligations to issue and deliver Warrant
Shares in accordance with the terms hereof are absolute and unconditional,
irrespective of any action or inaction by the Holder to enforce the same, any
waiver or consent with respect to any provision hereof, the recovery of any
judgment against any Person or any action to enforce the same, or any setoff,
counterclaim, recoupment, limitation or termination, or any breach or alleged
breach by the Holder or any other Person of any obligation to the Company or any
violation or alleged violation of law by the Holder or any other Person, and
irrespective of any other circumstance which might otherwise limit such
obligation of the Company to the Holder in connection with


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the issuance of Warrant Shares. Nothing herein shall limit a Holder's right to
pursue any other remedies available to it hereunder, at law or in equity
including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or
injunctive relief with respect to the Company's failure to timely deliver
certificates representing Warrant Shares upon exercise of the Warrant as
required pursuant to the terms hereof.

         6. Charges, Taxes and Expenses. Issuance and delivery of Warrant Shares
upon exercise of this Warrant shall be made without charge to the Holder for any
issue or transfer tax, withholding tax, transfer agent fee or other incidental
tax or expense in respect of the issuance of such certificates, all of which
taxes and expenses shall be paid by the Company; provided, however, that the
Company shall not be required to pay any tax which may be payable in respect of
any transfer involved in the registration of any certificates for Warrant Shares
or Warrants in a name other than that of the Holder. The Holder shall be
responsible for all other tax liability that may arise as a result of holding or
transferring this Warrant or receiving Warrant Shares upon exercise hereof.

         7. Replacement of Warrant. If this Warrant is mutilated, lost, stolen
or destroyed, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued in exchange and
substitution for and upon cancellation hereof, or in lieu of and substitution
for this Warrant, a New Warrant, but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably
satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or destruction and customary and
reasonable indemnity (which shall not include a surety bond), if requested.
Applicants for a New Warrant under such circumstances shall also comply with
such other reasonable regulations and procedures and pay such other reasonable
third-party costs as the Company may prescribe. If a New Warrant is requested as
a result of a mutilation of this Warrant, then the Holder shall deliver such
mutilated Warrant to the Company as a condition precedent to the Company's
obligation to issue the New Warrant.

         8. Reservation of Warrant Shares. The Company covenants that it will at
all times reserve and keep available out of the aggregate of its authorized but
unissued and otherwise unreserved Common Stock, solely for the purpose of
enabling it to issue Warrant Shares upon exercise of this Warrant as herein
provided, the number of Warrant Shares which are then issuable and deliverable
upon the exercise of this entire Warrant, free from preemptive rights or any
other contingent purchase rights of Persons other than the Holder (taking into
account the adjustments and restrictions of Section 9). The Company covenants
that all Warrant Shares so issuable and deliverable shall, upon issuance and the
payment of the applicable Exercise Price in accordance with the terms hereof, be
duly and validly authorized, issued and fully paid and nonassessable.

         9. Certain Adjustments. The Exercise Price and number of Warrant Shares
issuable upon exercise of this Warrant are subject to adjustment from time to
time as set forth in this Section 9.


                  (a) Stock Dividends and Splits. If the Company, at any time
while this Warrant is outstanding, (i) pays a stock dividend on its Common Stock
or otherwise makes a distribution on any class of capital stock that is payable
in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides outstanding shares of Common Stock
into a larger number of shares, or (iii) combines outstanding shares of Common
Stock into a smaller number of shares, then in each such case the


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Exercise Price shall be multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator shall be
the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately before such event
and of which the denominator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding immediately after such event. Any adjustment made pursuant to clause
(i) of this paragraph shall become effective immediately after the record date
for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or
distribution, and any adjustment pursuant to clause (ii) or (iii) of this
paragraph shall become effective immediately after the effective date of such
subdivision or combination.

                  (b) Fundamental Transactions. If, at any time while this
Warrant is outstanding, (1) the Company effects any merger or consolidation of
the Company with or into another Person, (2) the Company effects any sale of all
or substantially all of its assets in one or a series of related transactions,
(3) any tender offer or exchange offer (whether by the Company or another
Person) is completed pursuant to which holders of Common Stock are permitted to
tender or exchange their shares for other securities, cash or property, or (4)
the Company effects any reclassification of the Common Stock or any compulsory
share exchange pursuant to which the Common Stock is effectively converted into
or exchanged for other securities, cash or property (in any such case, a
"FUNDAMENTAL TRANSACTION"), then the Holder shall have the right thereafter to
receive, upon exercise of this Warrant, the same amount and kind of securities,
cash or property as it would have been entitled to receive upon the occurrence
of such Fundamental Transaction if it had been, immediately prior to such
Fundamental Transaction, the holder of the number of Warrant Shares then
issuable upon exercise in full of this Warrant (the "ALTERNATE CONSIDERATION").
For purposes of any such exercise, the determination of the Exercise Price shall
be appropriately adjusted to apply to such Alternate Consideration based on the
amount of Alternate Consideration issuable in respect of one share of Common
Stock in such Fundamental Transaction, and the Company shall apportion the
Exercise Price among the Alternate Consideration in a reasonable manner
reflecting the relative value of any different components of the Alternate
Consideration. If holders of Common Stock are given any choice as to the
securities, cash or property to be received in a Fundamental Transaction, then
the Holder shall be given the same choice as to the Alternate Consideration it
receives upon any exercise of this Warrant following such Fundamental
Transaction. If any successor to the Company or surviving entity in such
Fundamental Transaction shall fail to issue, not later than the earlier of 15
days after consummation of such Fundamental Transaction or three days after
written request therefor by the Holder, to the Holder a new warrant
substantially in the form of this Warrant and consistent with the foregoing
provisions and evidencing the Holder's right to purchase the Alternate
Consideration for the aggregate Exercise Price upon exercise thereof, then the
Holder shall have the right to require such successor or surviving entity to
purchase the Warrant from the Holder for a purchase price, payable in cash
within five Trading Days after such request, equal to the Black Scholes value of
the remaining unexercised portion of this Warrant on the date of such request.
The terms of any agreement pursuant to which a Fundamental Transaction is
effected shall include terms requiring any such successor or surviving entity to
comply with the provisions of this paragraph (b) and insuring that the Warrant
(or any such replacement security) will be similarly adjusted upon any
subsequent transaction analogous to a Fundamental Transaction.

                  (c) Number of Warrant Shares. Simultaneously with any
adjustment to the Exercise Price pursuant to this Section 9, the number of
Warrant Shares that may be purchased upon exercise of this Warrant shall be
increased or decreased proportionately, so that after such


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adjustment the aggregate Exercise Price payable hereunder for the adjusted
number of Warrant Shares shall be the same as the aggregate Exercise Price in
effect immediately prior to such adjustment.

                  (d) Calculations. All calculations under this Section 9 shall
be made to the nearest cent or the nearest 1/100th of a share, as applicable.
The number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at any given time shall not
include shares owned or held by or for the account of the Company, and the
disposition of any such shares shall be considered an issue or sale of Common
Stock.

                  (e) Notice of Adjustments. Upon the occurrence of each
adjustment pursuant to this Section 9, the Company at its expense will promptly
compute such adjustment in accordance with the terms of this Warrant and prepare
a certificate setting forth such adjustment, including a statement of the
adjusted Exercise Price and adjusted number or type of Warrant Shares or other
securities issuable upon exercise of this Warrant (as applicable), describing
the transactions giving rise to such adjustments and showing in detail the facts
upon which such adjustment is based. Upon written request, the Company will
promptly deliver a copy of each such certificate to the Holder and to the
Company's Transfer Agent.

                  (f) Notice of Corporate Events. If the Company (i) declares a
dividend or any other distribution of cash, securities or other property in
respect of its Common Stock, including without limitation any granting of rights
or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any capital stock of the Company or any
Subsidiary, (ii) authorizes or approves, enters into any agreement contemplating
or solicits stockholder approval for any Fundamental Transaction or (iii)
authorizes the voluntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the affairs
of the Company, then the Company shall deliver to the Holder a notice describing
the material terms and conditions of such transaction (but only to the extent
such disclosure would not result in the dissemination of material, non-public
information to the Holder) at least 10 calendar days prior to the applicable
record or effective date on which a Person would need to hold Common Stock in
order to participate in or vote with respect to such transaction, and the
Company will take all steps reasonably necessary in order to insure that the
Holder is given the practical opportunity to exercise this Warrant prior to such
time so as to participate in or vote with respect to such transaction; provided,
however, that the failure to deliver such notice or any defect therein shall not
affect the validity of the corporate action required to be described in such
notice.

         10. Payment of Exercise Price. The Holder may pay the Exercise Price in
one of the following manners:

                  (a) Cash Exercise. The Holder may deliver immediately
available funds; or

                  (b) Cashless Exercise. If an Exercise Notice is delivered at a
time when a registration statement permitting the Holder to resell the Warrant
Shares is not then effective or the prospectus forming a part thereof is not
then available to the Holder for the resale of the Warrant Shares, then the
Holder may notify the Company in an Exercise Notice of its election to utilize
cashless exercise, in which event the Company shall issue to the Holder the
number of Warrant Shares determined as follows:


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                       X = Y [(A-B)/A]

                where:

                       X = the number of Warrant Shares to be issued to the
                           Holder.

                       Y = the number of Warrant Shares with respect to which
                           this Warrant is being exercised.

                       A = the average of the closing prices for the five
                           Trading Days immediately prior to (but not including)
                           the Exercise Date.

                       B = the Exercise Price.

For purposes of Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act, it is intended,
understood and acknowledged that the Warrant Shares issued in a cashless
exercise transaction shall be deemed to have been acquired by the Holder, and
the holding period for the Warrant Shares shall be deemed to have commenced, on
the date this Warrant was originally issued.

         11. Limitations on Exercise. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained herein, the number of Warrant Shares that may be acquired by the
Holder upon any exercise of this Warrant (or otherwise in respect hereof) shall
be limited to the extent necessary to insure that, following such exercise (or
other issuance), the total number of shares of Common Stock then beneficially
owned by such Holder and its Affiliates and any other Persons whose beneficial
ownership of Common Stock would be aggregated with the Holder's for purposes of
Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, does not exceed 9.999% of the total number of
issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock (including for such purpose the
shares of Common Stock issuable upon such exercise). For such purposes,
beneficial ownership shall be determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the
Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. This
provision shall not restrict the number of shares of Common Stock which a Holder
may receive or beneficially own in order to determine the amount of securities
or other consideration that such Holder may receive in the event of a
Fundamental Transaction as contemplated in Section 9 of this Warrant. This
restriction may not be waived.

         12. No Fractional Shares. No fractional Warrant Shares will be issued
in connection with any exercise of this Warrant. In lieu of any fractional
shares which would otherwise be issuable, the Company shall pay cash equal to
the product of such fraction multiplied by the closing price of one share of
Common Stock as reported by the applicable Trading Market on the date of
exercise.

         13. Notices. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries
hereunder (including, without limitation, any Exercise Notice) shall be in
writing and shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of (i) the date
of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at
the facsimile number specified in this Section prior to 6:30 p.m. (New York City
time) on a Trading Day, (ii) the next Trading Day after the date of
transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the
facsimile number specified in this Section on a day that is not a Trading Day or
later than 6:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, (iii) the Trading
Day following the date of mailing, if sent by


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nationally recognized overnight courier service, or (iv) upon actual receipt by
the party to whom such notice is required to be given. The addresses for such
communications shall be: (i) if to the Company, to Digital Recorders, Inc.,
Attn: President, or to Facsimile No.: (214) 378-8437 (or such other address as
the Company shall indicate in writing in accordance with this Section), or (ii)
if to the Holder, to the address or facsimile number appearing on the Warrant
Register or such other address or facsimile number as the Holder may provide to
the Company in accordance with this Section.

         14. Warrant Agent. The Company shall serve as warrant agent under this
Warrant. Upon 10 days' notice to the Holder, the Company may appoint a new
warrant agent. Any corporation into which the Company or any new warrant agent
may be merged or any corporation resulting from any consolidation to which the
Company or any new warrant agent shall be a party or any corporation to which
the Company or any new warrant agent transfers substantially all of its
corporate trust or shareholders services business shall be a successor warrant
agent under this Warrant without any further act. Any such successor warrant
agent shall promptly cause notice of its succession as warrant agent to be
mailed (by first class mail, postage prepaid) to the Holder at the Holder's last
address as shown on the Warrant Register.

         15. Miscellaneous.

                  (a) This Warrant shall be binding on and inure to the benefit
of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. Subject to
the preceding sentence, nothing in this Warrant shall be construed to give to
any Person other than the Company and the Holder any legal or equitable right,
remedy or cause of action under this Warrant. This Warrant may be amended only
in writing signed by the Company and the Holder and their successors and
assigns.

                  (b) All questions concerning the construction, validity,
enforcement and interpretation of this Warrant shall be governed by and
construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New
York (except for matters governed by corporate law in the State of North
Carolina), without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof. Each
party agrees that all legal proceedings concerning the interpretations,
enforcement and defense of this Warrant and the transactions herein contemplated
("PROCEEDINGS") (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective
Affiliates, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the New York
Courts. Each party hereto hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the New York Courts for the adjudication of any dispute
hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby
or discussed herein, and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in
any Proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction
of any New York Court, or that such Proceeding has been commenced in an improper
or inconvenient forum. Each party hereto hereby irrevocably waives personal
service of process and consents to process being served in any such Proceeding
by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery
(with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices
to it under this Warrant and agrees that such service shall constitute good and
sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall
be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any manner permitted
by law. Each party hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent
permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal
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to this Warrant or the transactions contemplated hereby. If either party shall
commence a Proceeding to enforce any provisions of this Warrant, then the
prevailing party in such Proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for
its attorney's fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the
investigation, preparation and prosecution of such Proceeding.

                  (c) The headings herein are for convenience only, do not
constitute a part of this Warrant and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any
of the provisions hereof.

                  (d) In case any one or more of the provisions of this Warrant
shall be invalid or unenforceable in any respect, the validity and
enforceability of the remaining terms and provisions of this Warrant shall not
in any way be affected or impaired thereby and the parties will attempt in good
faith to agree upon a valid and enforceable provision which shall be a
commercially reasonable substitute therefor, and upon so agreeing, shall
incorporate such substitute provision in this Warrant.

                  (e) Prior to exercise of this Warrant, the Holder hereof shall
not, by reason of by being a Holder, be entitled to any rights of a stockholder
with respect to the Warrant Shares

                  [REMAINDER OF PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK,
                             SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS]




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         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Warrant to be duly
executed by its authorized officer as of the date first indicated above.

                                  DIGITAL RECORDERS, INC.

                                  By: /s/ David L. Turney
                                     ---------------------------------------
                                     David L. Turney, Chairman of the Board,
                                     Chief Executive Officer and President



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                                 EXERCISE NOTICE
                             DIGITAL RECORDERS, INC.
                          WARRANT DATED April 26, 2004

The undersigned Holder hereby irrevocably elects to purchase _____________
shares of Common Stock pursuant to the above referenced Warrant. Capitalized
terms used herein and not otherwise defined have the respective meanings set
forth in the Warrant.

(1) The undersigned Holder hereby exercises its right to purchase
_________________ Warrant Shares pursuant to the Warrant.

(2) The Holder intends that payment of the Exercise Price shall be made as
(check one):

                         ____"Cash Exercise" under Section 10

                         ____"Cashless Exercise" under Section 10

(3) If the holder has elected a Cash Exercise, the holder shall pay the sum of
$____________ to the Company in accordance with the terms of the Warrant.

(4) Pursuant to this Exercise Notice, the Company shall deliver to the holder
_______________ Warrant Shares in accordance with the terms of the Warrant.

(5) By its delivery of this Exercise Notice, the undersigned represents and
warrants to the Company that in giving effect to the exercise evidenced hereby
the Holder will not beneficially own in excess of the number of shares of Common
Stock (determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934) permitted to be owned under Section 11 of this Warrant to which
this notice relates.

Dated:                      ,                Name of Holder:
       ---------------------  -------

                                             (Print)
                                                    ---------------------------

                                             By:
                                                -------------------------------
                                             Name:
                                                  -----------------------------
                                             Title:

                                             (Signature must conform in all
                                             respects to name of holder as
                                             specified on the face of the
                                             Warrant)



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                           Warrant Shares Exercise Log

<Table>
<Caption>


                                                                             Number of
             Number of Warrant               Exercised                       Warrant Shares
             Shares Available to be          Number of Warrant Shares        Remaining to
Date         Exercised                       Exercised                       be Exercised
- ----         ----------------------          ------------------------        ---------------
                                                                    




</Table>



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                             DIGITAL RECORDERS, INC.
                    WARRANT ORIGINALLY ISSUED April 26, 2004
                               WARRANT NO. 2004-12


                               FORM OF ASSIGNMENT

         [To be completed and signed only upon transfer of Warrant]

         FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers
unto ________________________________ the right represented by the
above-captioned Warrant to purchase ____________ shares of Common Stock to which
such Warrant relates and appoints ________________ attorney to transfer said
right on the books of the Company with full power of substitution in the
premises.



Dated:   _______________, ____



                                         ---------------------------------------
                                         (Signature must conform in all respects
                                         to name of holder as specified on the
                                         face of the Warrant)



                                         ---------------------------------------
                                         Address of Transferee

                                         ---------------------------------------

                                         ---------------------------------------


In the presence of:


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