Type in either box and the other one translates. Press play to hear it.
Morse is meant to be heard, so on paper it needs a few conventions. This translator uses the common ones and accepts most variations:
. for a dot (dit) and - for a dash (dah). It also reads •, · and * as dots, and _, – and — as dashes.... --- ... is S O S./ between words. | or a run of three spaces works too.Everything in Morse is measured in units. A dot is one unit, a dash three. The gap inside a letter is one unit, between letters three, and between words seven. Speed is set by the word PARIS, which takes exactly 50 units, so 20 words per minute means a 60-millisecond dot. Slide the speed down to learn by ear, or up once the rhythm starts making sense. The lamp next to the play button flashes in time if you'd rather read it as light.
The commonest letters got the shortest codes when Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail drew up the system: E is a single dot and T a single dash. Learn the letters by sound rather than by counting dots, and start with E, T, A, N, I, M and S, which cover a huge share of English.
If you find dots and dashes in a puzzle that won't translate, they may be binary in disguise (dot = 0, dash = 1), or a Morse code with the letter gaps removed, which can't be read unambiguously. Paste it into the cipher identifier to check.
Use . for a dot and - for a dash, a space between letters, and / between words. The translator also accepts • · * for dots, _ – — for dashes, and | or three spaces between words.
··· ––– ··· — three dots, three dashes, three dots, sent as one continuous signal.
20 words per minute by default, about the speed of a confident amateur operator. Lower it if you're copying by ear. Letters are timed by the standard PARIS method.
Yes. Digits 0–9 and the common punctuation marks in the International Morse standard are all supported.