Sonic Foundry Unveils Next Version of Mediasite 5.1

Enhancements to Recorders, lecture capture's first Silverlight Player and
advanced scheduler revealed at InfoComm 2009

ORLANDO, Fla., June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- (InfoComm Booth #5071,
EduComm Booth #15-17) --- 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
webcasting platform from the show floor at InfoComm 2009.

The latest release adds platform-wide enhancements to the Mediasite Recorders,
webcasting appliances that capture, encode and synchronize high-quality video
and DVI/VGA images as rich media presentations, and the Mediasite Server which
streams live and on-demand webcasts and provides centralized content
management. Both room-based Mediasite RL Recorders and portable Mediasite ML
Recorders feature a redesigned 5.1 recording interface as well as variable
bitrate capture settings that accommodate presenters' on-the-fly image input
changes. The new at-a-glance scheduling calendar and ability to import
schedules from course management or enterprise scheduling systems, saves
significant administrative time when recording recurring presentations or
lectures.

"Here at the Carlson School of Management, we rely on the current Mediasite
scheduler to automatically activate and manage multiple Mediasite Recorders
remotely," said Michael Teachout, media services coordinator at the University
of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management. "The expanded scheduling features
showcased in 5.1 will expand the possibilities of remote automatic control for
our school, offering more options to streamline scheduling."

Other Mediasite 5.1 enhancements include:
-- New Silverlight 2.0-based Players for the richest and most dynamic
Mediasite experience on PC, Mac and Linux. Organizations can embed
presentations that use the new Players in any blog, course management
portal or web page, allowing viewers to watch Mediasite within the
sites
they use most. User-controlled video and slide placement supports
side-by-side, picture-in-picture and full screen options.
-- 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.

-- Automated closed captioning for institutions either required or
seeking
to make technology available and usable for users with disabilities.
Mediasite now automates the complete process of closed captioning
content for deaf and hearing-impaired students. In a single step,
users
set the closed captioning preference once for an entire folder of
content, and closed captions are displayed in the Mediasite Player for
the user.

"Mediasite 5.1 continues the tradition of innovation and refinement that has
made Sonic Foundry the trusted provider of integrated presentation and lecture
capture technology worldwide," said Rob Lipps, executive vice president of
sales of Sonic Foundry. "The increased options for automatically generating
content with the Mediasite system and embedding it throughout the web will
spark even broader adoption and applications for enterprise rich media."

Sonic Foundry will demonstrate Mediasite 5.1 during InfoComm, June 17 - 19 in
Orlando, Florida, in booth #5071.

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