Exhibit 99.1

          DRI Corporation Announces Availability of Audio Webcast from
                    CEO's Financial Presentation in New York

     DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 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 an audio webcast of Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer
David L. Turney's presentation during the Wall Street Reporter's 13th Small-Cap
Discovery Conference, held today in New York, is available via www.vcall.com and
www.wallstreetreporter.com.

     On Oct. 25, 2007, Mr. Turney plans to meet with institutional investors in
San Francisco.

     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 meetings and 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 meetings and 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