Sonic Foundry Introduces Mediasite 5.1 for Advanced Lecture Capture

Latest enhancements include lecture capture's first fully Silverlight-based
Players, automated closed captioning and streamlined course scheduling

ORLANDO, Fla., June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EduComm Booth #15-17,
InfoComm Booth #5071 - Sonic Foundry, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOFO), the recognized
market leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, today
introduced Mediasite 5.1, the latest release of the company's award-winning
lecture capture platform Mediasite, from the show floor at EduComm 2009.

Mediasite 5.1 continues to set the standard for online lectures and
presentations. The new release includes platform-wide enhancements benefiting
various campus users that interact with Mediasite daily - from staff who
schedule and capture lectures and manage course content to students who rely
on mediasited lectures to improve their learning experience. Mediasite 5.1
includes:
-- Unrivaled Player experience. Leveraging Silverlight 2.0, the newest
Mediasite Players provide students the richest and most dynamic
lecture
capture playback experience yet. Plus, universities can embed
presentations that use the new Players directly within any course
management system, campus website or blog, allowing students to watch
Mediasite within the sites they use most.
-- Automated closed captioning. For institutions either required or
seeking
to make technology available and usable for students with
disabilities,
Mediasite now automates the process of closed captioning entire
courses
for deaf and hearing-impaired students. In a single step, users set
the
closed captioning preference once for a course. Mediasite then
automates
the complete captioning workflow for any recorded presentations for
that
course by auto-uploading media files to a captioning provider,
immediately associating auto-returned closed captions to their
corresponding presentations and automatically displaying the closed
captions in the Mediasite Player for the student.

-- Enhanced presentation scheduling. Mediasite's new at-a-glance
scheduling calendar and ability to import schedules from campus course
management or other scheduling systems saves significant
administrative
time when recording recurring classes or multiple sessions. It also
warns content creators of potential scheduling conflicts.

"Mediasite's new Silverlight-based Players open up a wide range of
possibilities for embedding content for the University of Tennessee Knoxville,
whether it's a sporting event or a board meeting," said Bob Hillhouse,
Director of IT Engineering Services. "Silverlight is a key technology for our
university, and the new Mediasite Players help us deliver the most polished
multimedia presentations with minimal support to the widest audience in the UT
system. Plus, the interactive features and fresh look of the new Players make
all of our content look exceptional."

Other new features include:
-- Enhanced tracking and reporting with new interactive graphs and
dynamic
views of valuable content viewing statistics - by presentation, user,
presenter and more.
-- In-catalog editing which supports on-the-fly metadata changes to
presentations in the Mediasite Catalog, an automatically-generated
online portal of archived presentations.
-- Ability to customize friendly URLs for Mediasite Catalog pages.

-- Revamped presentation recording interfaces for both room-based
Mediasite
RL Recorders and portable Mediasite ML Recorders.

"With the release of Mediasite 5.1 we provide our largest customer segment
with significant refinements that will radically extend their ability to
support large numbers of departments and users, without increasing support
costs," said Sean Brown, vice president of education for Sonic Foundry. "With
the flexibility of Silverlight, the seamless workflow of enhanced captioning
support and scheduling automation, Mediasite 5.1 makes rapid deployment of
university-wide lecture capture a reality for any institution."

Sonic Foundry will demonstrate Mediasite 5.1 during EduComm, June 16 - 18 in
Orlando, Florida, in booths #15-17.

About Sonic Foundry(R), Inc.
Sonic Foundry (Nasdaq: SOFO, www.sonicfoundry.com) is the global leader for
rich media webcasting and knowledge management, providing enterprise
communication solutions for more than 1,500 customers in education, business
and government. Powered by Mediasite, the patented webcasting platform which
automates the capture, management, delivery and search of lectures, online
training and briefings, Sonic Foundry empowers people to transform the way
they communicate. Through the Mediasite platform and its Events Services
group, the company helps customers connect a dynamic, evolving world of shared
knowledge and envisions a future where learners and workers around the globe
use webcasting to bridge time and distance, accelerate research and improve
performance.

Product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of Sonic
Foundry, Inc. or their respective owners.

Certain statements contained in this news release regarding matters that are
not historical facts may be forward-looking statements. Because such
forward-looking statements include risks and uncertainties, actual results may
differ materially from those expressed in or implied by such forward-looking
statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially
include, but are not limited to, uncertainties pertaining to continued market
acceptance for Sonic Foundry's products, its ability to succeed in capturing
significant revenues from media services and/or systems, the effect of new
competitors in its market, integration of acquired business and other risk
factors identified from time to time in its filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.

SOURCE Sonic Foundry, Inc.

Tammy Kramer of Sonic Foundry, Inc., +1-608-237-8592, tammyk@sonicfoundry.com