Videotex

Alternative forms

• videotext

Origin

video + text

Full definition of videotex

Noun

1. Any of various early information retrieval services, such as viewdata and Teletext systems, that delivered pages of computerized text to users on request.
• 1980, IEEE Computer Society, Computer‎A variety of extensions of this basic videotex terminal can be foreseen.
• 1984, The Radio and Electronic Engineer‎In 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.