Exhibit 99.1

          DRI Corporation Announces New Digital Recorders(R)
 Product and Technology to Enhance Transit Communications and Transit
                               Security


    DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--September 20, 2007--DRI Corporation (DRI)
(NASDAQ: TBUS), a digital communications technology leader in the
domestic and international surface transportation and transit security
markets, announced today that its Digital Recorders, Inc. subsidiary,
based in Durham, N.C., has developed a new transit communications and
transit security product, the Digital Recorders(R) Automatic Vehicle
Location Software System.

    "This new development demonstrates our technological advancements
in transit communications and transit security. Its emergency features
and improved communications technology will help increase the safety
of our customers' passengers and drivers. We expect to release the new
product, which is currently undergoing a series of BETA tests, in the
last half of 2007. Each year, we invest a considerable amount of our
time and money in product research and development. We are proud to
see continued gains on those investments," David L. Turney, the
Company's Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, said.

    ABOUT THE DIGITAL RECORDERS, INC. SUBSIDIARY

    Established in 1983, the Company's Digital Recorders, Inc.
subsidiary develops and manufactures intelligent transportation
products for the transit industry. Products include: Digital
Recorders(R) computer-aided dispatch/automatic vehicle location
systems; Digital Recorders(R) automatic vehicle monitoring systems;
Talking Bus(R) automatic voice announcement systems; Digital
Recorders(R) vandal-resistant, hands-free driver microphones;
VacTell(TM) video actionable intelligence systems, and more. For more
information about the Company's Digital Recorders, Inc. subsidiary, go
to www.talkingbus.com.

    ABOUT THE COMPANY

    DRI Corporation is a digital communications technology leader in
the domestic and international public transportation and transit
security markets. Our products include: TwinVision(R) and Mobitec(R)
electronic destination sign systems, Talking Bus(R) voice announcement
systems, Digital Recorders(R) Internet-based passenger information and
automatic vehicle location/monitoring systems, and VacTell(TM) video
actionable intelligence systems. Our products help increase the
mobility, flow, safety, and security of people who rely upon
transportation infrastructure around the globe. Using proprietary
hardware and software applications, our products provide
easy-to-understand, real-time information that assists users and
operators of transit bus and rail vehicles in locating, identifying,
boarding, tracking, scheduling, and managing those vehicles. Our
products also aid transit vehicle operators in their quest to increase
ridership and reduce fuel consumption, as well as to identify and
mitigate security risks on transit vehicles. Positioned not only to
serve and address mobility, energy conservation, and environmental
concerns, our products also serve the growing U.S. Homeland Security
market. For more information about the Company and its operations
worldwide, go to www.digrec.com.

    FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

    This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within
the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
In particular, statements concerning the timing and capabilities of
the new Digital Recorders product, as well as any potential benefit
the product may have on the Company's ongoing operations or its
customers' transit fleets; together with any statement, express or
implied, concerning future events or expectations, is a
forward-looking statement. Use of words such as "expect," "fully
expect," "expected," "appears," "believe," "belief," "plan,"
"anticipate," "would," "goal," "potential," "potentially," "range,"
"pursuit," "run rate," "stronger," "preliminarily," etc., is intended
to identify forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and
uncertainties, including the risk that the assumptions behind the
product's technologies are incorrect, the risk that we have
overestimated the product's capabilities or planned release, as well
as other risks and uncertainties set forth in our Annual Report on
Form 10-K filed March 28, 2007, particularly those identified in Risk
Factors Affecting Our Business. There can be no assurance that any
expectation, express or implied, in a forward-looking statement will
prove correct or that the contemplated event or result will occur as
anticipated.


    CONTACT: Veronica B. Marks
             Manager, Corporate Communications
             DRI Corporation
             Phone: (214) 378-4776
             Fax: (214) 378-8437
             E-Mail: veronicam@digrec.com