Express Scribe vs. Bluedot

Express Scribe is an audio player specifically designed for typists and transcription work. Featuring foot pedal control, variable speed, speech to text engine integration and support for a wide variety of audio formats including wav, mp3, wma. Audio recordings can be loaded automatically from CD, email, LAN, FTP, local hard drive and Express Delegate. Traditional hand held dictation recorders can also be docked and the audio transferred. Features a Mini version to reduce the applications screen space. Features: Variable speed (constant pitch) playback.

Bluedot is a secure, privacy-first AI note-taker that records, transcribes, and summarizes online and in-person meetings without sending a bot into your calls. It captures audio directly from your device and supports audio and video recording across Chrome, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Apple Watch. Bluedot is GDPR-compliant, SOC 2 Type II audited, and never uses customer data to train AI models. Named one of Google's favorite Chrome extensions in 2025, Bluedot is trusted by 50,000+ companies, from startups to enterprises.