Morse Code Translator Text to Morse and back, with sound

01Type or paste

Letters become Morse code, and dots and dashes become letters. The badge at the top shows which way it is translating. If a short entry is read the wrong way, choose the direction from the menu.

Write Morse with a space between letters and a slash between words, such as .... .. / - .... . .-. .. Underscores, middle dots and long dashes are read as well.

02Listen and watch

Play sends the code as a tone while the lamp lights for every dot and dash, and the character being sent is highlighted. Tick Flash the whole screen to signal across a room.

Download WAV saves the same sound as an audio file at your current speed and tone.

03Tap it yourself

Hold the key under Tap your own code with a finger, the mouse or the Space key. The translator decides between dot and dash from how long you hold, using the speed setting, and adds letter and word gaps from your pauses.

The unit

Everything is measured in one unit, the length of a dot. A dash is 3 units. The gap inside a letter is 1 unit, the gap between letters is 3, and the gap between words is 7.

Words per minute

Speed is counted with the word PARIS, which takes exactly 50 units including the gap after it. At 20 WPM PARIS fits 20 times into a minute, so one unit lasts 60 milliseconds.

Farnsworth spacing

Farnsworth timing keeps each letter at full speed but makes the gaps longer, so the overall speed is slower. You learn the sound of a whole letter instead of counting dots, then shrink the gaps as you improve.