videotex

noun

videotex

noun

Etymology From video + text.

1

Usually Any of various early information retrieval services, such as viewdata and Teletext systems, that delivered pages of computerized text to users on request.

  • A variety of extensions of this basic videotex terminal can be foreseen.1980, IEEE Computer Society, Computer:
  • In this paper, the development of a microprocessor based system for converting videotex pages to synthetic speech in real time, for the benefit of blind people, is described.1984, The Radio and Electronic Engineer:

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