videotex

See also: vidéotex

English

Alternative forms

• videotext

Etymology

video +‎ text

Noun

videotex (usually uncountable, plural videotexes)

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, Computer:

     A variety of extensions of this basic videotex terminal can be foreseen.

   • 1984, The Radio and Electronic Engineer:

     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.