Blinkx releases internet video player with speech recognition

Online video service Blinkx has decided to take on Joost, Babelgum, Vuze, Miro, and VeohTV by launching a non-browser based internet video player. Blinkx Broadband TV looks like a run of the mill internet video browser at first. It's got pretty decent video quality and a pretty sparse collection of videos, made up of independent films, video podcasts, and movie trailers.

But there's one thing that sets Blinkx BBTV apart. It uses Blinkx's speech recognition technology, allowing you to click on a dialog button to bring up a list of lines spoken in the video. Click on a line of dialog and you'll jump to that point in the video. This feature isn't available in every video at the moment, but it is kind of nifty, and gives you a lot more control over your navigation than you'd typically get from internet video, or even a DVD chapter menu.

You can also pull up IMDB pages with with more information about the actors, directors, genres, and other movie metadata without launching an external browser, which is pretty cool. Again, this feature isn't available for all videos.