Exhibit 99.1


         DRI Corporation Receives Order from General Electric


    --  Order for Digital Recorders(R) Products Valued at
        Approximately $1 Million

    --  Order Slated for Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's
        Heavy Rail Fleet


    DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 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 received an order valued at approximately
$1 million from GE Transportation Systems through its GETS Global
Signaling, LLC division based in Canton, Mass.

    "GE Transportation Systems, a sector of General Electric, is one
of the world's largest transportation groups. Celebrating its 100th
anniversary in 2007, GE Transportation Systems has more than 30 years'
experience as a supplier of integrated passenger information systems
in North America. Through our relationship with GE Transportation
Systems -- an organization that is highly respected and uniquely
capable of integrating our products with larger systems in ways that
exceed our independent abilities -- we are further extending our
transit market reach. In this case, that includes extending into rail
vehicle applications. This order for the Digital Recorders(R)
Passenger Train Information System includes the Digital Recorders(R)
Voice Announcement and Automatic Vehicle Locating systems. The order
will benefit the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's (MBTA)
heavy rail fleet. The project is already underway, and product
delivery is expected to conclude in first quarter 2009," David L.
Turney, the Company's Chairman, President, and Chief Executive
Officer, said.

    The Company's Digital Recorders, Inc. subsidiary and GE
Transportation Systems are working together through a Teaming
Agreement to deliver advanced technology systems integration projects.

    ABOUT GE TRANSPORTATION

    GE Transportation System's rail business
(www.getransportation.com) is one of the world's leading suppliers to
the railroad, transit, marine, stationary and mining industries,
providing freight and passenger locomotives, motorized systems for
mining trucks and drills, railway signaling and communications
systems, value-added services and information technology solutions to
its customers. With sales in excess of $2.5 billion, GE
Transportation's rail business employs approximately 8,000 people
worldwide.

    GE (NYSE: GE) is a diversified technology, media and financial
services company dedicated to creating products that make life better.
From aircraft engines and power generation to financial services,
medical imaging, television programming and plastics, GE operates in
more than 100 countries and employs more than 300,000 people
worldwide. For more information, visit the company's Web site at
www.ge.com.

    ABOUT MBTA

    In terms of daily ridership, the MBTA remains the nation's fifth
largest mass transit system. It serves a population of approximately
4,667,555 (2000 census) in 175 cities and towns with an area of 3,244
square miles. To carry out its mission, it maintains 183 bus routes.
The average weekday ridership for the entire system is approximately
1.1 million passenger trips.

    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 amount of new
orders or their expected delivery and installation dates, as well as
the potential benefit such orders may have on our ongoing operations,
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 products' order, delivery and
installation are incorrect, 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