SONIC FOUNDRY UNVEILS MEDIASITE 5.1 FOR LECTURE CAPTURE.

Sonic Foundry, Inc., (NASDAQ:SOFO), a market leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, has introduced Mediasite 5.1, the latest release of the company's award-winning lecture capture platform Mediasite.

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 the following:

-- 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 ...