Sonic Foundry Wins Platinum Award

Sonic Foundry, (AMEX: SFO), a leading developer and distributor of digital audio software for the Windows[R] platform, has been awarded the prestigious 1999 Platinum Award in the category of Audio Editing Software by AV Video Multimedia Producer. The award, which was announced in the magazine's January issue, was for Sonic Foundry's professional audio editing software, Sound Forge 4.5.

To win the award, Sound Forge 4.5 was first nominated by the editors of AV Video Multimedia Producer as one of 1998's most innovative products. The magazine's readers, high level professionals in the digital content creation market, then selected Sound Forge 4.5 as the leader in its category.

The industry standard for audio editing on the Windows platform, Sound Forge 4.5 is the most comprehensive audio editing and Internet development tool in the industry. Packed with dozens of high quality features for manipulating sound, Sound Forge lets users record, edit, and process mono or stereo audio files and sync audio to video quickly and easily, making it perfect for multimedia projects or Internet applications. Sound Forge supports a wide variety of popular audio file types, including WAV and Java AU, and it includes a variety of effects such as Reverb, EQ, Distortion, and Fade In/Out.

"We are extremely flattered to be selected by the industry's leading creative professionals for this award," commented Roy Elkins, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Sonic Foundry. "This is a testament to the imagination and discipline that went into creating the product and the continuing enhancements then made by Sonic Foundry to maintain Sound Forge as the industry standard for Windows-based audio editing."

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