Exhibit 99.1

       DRI Corporation Updates Slate of Financial Conferences and Meetings

     DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 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 it has updated the calendar of financial conferences and meetings in
which management will participate in the coming weeks.

     "Our products and services for the surface transportation, mobility and
security markets make us a unique story on Wall Street, in our opinion. Our
planned investor relations activities should help us share the Company's message
with groups of interested financial professionals from around the world," David
L. Turney, the Company's Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, said.

     Upcoming events include:

     --   EQUITIES Magazine Transatlantic Conference, Oct. 1, 2007, London Stock
          Exchange, London - This conference will be available via a delayed
          audio webcast on www.equitiesmagazine.com. Mr. Turney's presentation
          is scheduled at 9:30 a.m. (GMT).

     --   Wall Street Reporter 13th Small-Cap Discovery Conference, Oct. 24,
          2007, New York - This conference will be available via audio webcast
          at www.vcall.com and www.wallstreetreporter.com. For more information,
          visit www.wallstreetreporter.com.

     --   Meetings with Institutional Investors, Oct. 25, 2007, San Francisco

     The Company previously announced its plans to participate in the Arch
Investment Conference, Oct. 25, 2007, in San Francisco. Unfortunately, following
an earlier re-scheduling, the event organizers have now cancelled that
conference.

     For more information about DRI's planned financial and transit industry
conferences and meetings, review the "Calendar of Events" section within the
Company's Web site, www.digrec.com.

     ABOUT THE COMPANY

     DRI 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 potential impact on the Company's perceived value as a
result of participating in these various conferences or the Company's investor
relations efforts, as well as any statement, express or implied, concerning
future events or expectations which use words such as "expect," "fully expect,"
"expected," "appears," "believe," "plan," "anticipate," "would," "goal,"
"potential," "potentially," "range," "pursuit," "run rate," "stronger,"
"preliminarily," etc., are forward-looking statements. These forward looking
statements are subject to risks and uncertainties including risks that our
participation in these various conferences may not prove beneficial to the
Company, 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, as those risk factors are updated by our subsequent
quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. 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