  Let $\beta >1$ be a non-integer. We consider expansions of the form
$\sum_{i=1}^{\infty} d_i \beta^{-i}$, where the digits $(d_i)_{i \geq 1}$ are
generated by means of a Borel map $K_{\beta}$ defined on $\{0,1\}^{\N}\times [
0, \lfloor \beta \rfloor /(\beta -1)]$. We show existence and uniqueness of an
absolutely continuous $K_{\beta}$-invariant probability measure w.r.t. $m_p
\otimes \lambda$, where $m_p$ is the Bernoulli measure on $\{0,1\}^{\N}$ with
parameter $p$ $(0 < p < 1)$ and $\lambda$ is the normalized Lebesgue measure on
$[0 ,\lfloor \beta \rfloor /(\beta -1)]$. Furthermore, this measure is of the
form $m_p \otimes \mu_{\beta,p}$, where $\mu_{\beta,p}$ is equivalent with
$\lambda$. We establish the fact that the measure of maximal entropy and $m_p
\otimes \lambda$ are mutually singular. In case the number 1 has a finite
greedy expansion with positive coefficients, the measure $m_p \otimes
\mu_{\beta,p}$ is Markov. In the last section we answer a question concerning
the number of universal expansions, a notion introduced in [EK].
