Morse Code Translator

Morse Code Translator turns text into international Morse code and Morse back into text, and it decides the direction for you: type words and you get dots and dashes, paste dots and dashes and you get words. It knows every letter and digit, the common punctuation marks, a handful of accented letters and the procedure signals radio operators use, such as SOS and AR (end of message).

You can do far more than read the result. Play it as a clean tone with the speed, pitch and Farnsworth spacing you choose, watch a lamp flash in time while each letter lights up on the tape, make an Android phone vibrate the rhythm, or download the sound as a WAV file for a video, a puzzle or practice. A gentle glow mode switches on by itself when your device asks for reduced motion.

The Tap to key tab lets you send Morse yourself with a finger or the Space bar, and decodes what you tap as you go, which is a good way to practise. The NATO alphabet tab spells any word as Alfa, Bravo, Charlie for phone calls and bookings, reads it aloud with your device’s own voice, and has a printable chart. Nothing is uploaded: it all runs in your browser.

1. In “Translate & play”, type a message or paste Morse into the top box. Leave “Auto” on, or pick “Text → Morse” or “Morse → Text” yourself.
2. Copy the result with “Copy”, or press “Use as input” to translate it back the other way.
3. Press “Play” to hear it and watch the light. Set the Speed, Spacing and Tone sliders, and tick Sound, Flashing light or Vibrate.
4. Press “Download WAV” to save the sound as an audio file.
5. Open “Tap to key” and hold the big key (or the Space bar) to send your own Morse, or “NATO alphabet” to spell a word and press “Speak” to hear it.

• Automatic direction: text becomes Morse, dots and dashes become text, with a manual override.
• Letters A–Z, digits 0–9, 18 punctuation marks, accented letters such as É and Ñ, and nine prosigns including SOS, AR, SK and BT.
• Accepts Morse written with dots, middle dots, bullets, hyphens, underscores or long dashes, and words split by slashes, bars or extra spaces.
• Sound playback from 5 to 40 words per minute, Farnsworth spacing, and a pitch from 300 to 1,000 Hz.
• A flashing lamp and a tape that lights each letter as it plays, with a gentle glow mode for anyone sensitive to flashing.
• Vibration on phones that support it, and a WAV download of the exact sound.
• Tap to key: press length decides dot or dash, pauses end letters and words, with an optional beep and live decoding.
• NATO phonetic alphabet spelling with optional pronunciations and the Morse code for each letter, plus a printable A–Z and 0–9 chart.
• A Speak button that reads the NATO spelling aloud, highlighting each word as it is said, with a voice speed from 0.5× to 1.5×.

• Leave one space between letters and a slash (or three spaces) between words when you type Morse, or letters run together.
• Learning by ear? Set Speed to 18 or 20 WPM and Spacing to about 8. Letters keep their real rhythm while the gaps give you time to think.
• If your tapping keeps turning dashes into dots, lower “Your speed”: the tool counts a press as a dash once it lasts two dot-lengths.
• Morse has no lower case, so translating Morse back always gives capitals. Characters with no Morse code are listed in red.
• Before a phone call, press “Speak” on the NATO tab at a slow voice speed to hear how your booking code should sound.