Convert text to Morse or Morse back to text — with real audio playback, a blinking light, vibration, downloadable audio, adjustable speed & Farnsworth spacing, and a shareable secret-message link.
Interactive Audio, Flash, Vibration & WAV Export
✓ Verified against the ITU-R M.1677-1 international Morse code standard — the same specification used in amateur radio and aviation. See our accuracy methodology. Built and maintained by Waleed Akram, MSc Computer Sciences (Telecom & Signal Processing). About this project →
Under the hood, translation is a lookup table plus a scheduler — no network calls, no servers, no tracking. Everything runs in your browser.
Type any English sentence and the engine instantly maps every letter, number and punctuation mark to its ITU dot-dash pattern.
Paste dots and dashes — separated by spaces for letters and "/" for words — and read the plain-English translation immediately.
Hear your message as authentic dot-dash tones (or a telegraph sounder click), timed to correct ITU spacing at your chosen speed.
Export any translation as a WAV audio file — perfect for practice drills, ringtones, or sharing a message someone has to decode.
Enter text or Morse code into the translator above.
Your input converts in real time as you type — no button to press.
Play, blink, vibrate or download the result to hear and practice it.
Everything you need to encode, decode, hear and share Morse code — built into one free tool.
Morse code is a communication system that represents letters, numbers, and symbols as sequences of two signals — a short dot and a long dash. By arranging these two signals in different combinations, every character in written language can be encoded and transmitted.
The system is elegant in its simplicity: only two states — on and off — are needed to carry any message. Each letter has its own unique pattern, and no two letters share the same combination, which is what makes the code unambiguous.
Morse code is about rhythm, not symbols. Experienced operators hear it, feel it, or see flashes of light — and recognize patterns the way a musician recognizes a melody.
New to this? Our step-by-step learning guide walks through memorizing the full Morse code alphabet from scratch.
From early telegraph lines to space exploration and digital keyboards.
Samuel F. B. Morse and Alfred Vail develop Morse code for the electric telegraph.
"What hath God wrought" — sent from Washington D.C. to Baltimore. The beginning of the digital age.
The Paris telegraph conference adopts the cleaner International Morse Code, replacing American Morse for global use.
· · · − − − · · · chosen as the universal distress signal for its unmistakable simplicity.
Morse becomes the primary military communication method through both World Wars.
Amateur radio, aviation beacons, accessibility devices, iOS Morse keyboards — Morse is still working.
The complete International Morse Code (ITU standard). Click any character to hear it played through the translator above.
The everyday words people look up most — click any card to hear it played, or drop it straight into the translator above. See the full guides for SOS in Morse code and "I love you" in Morse code.
SOS isn't an abbreviation for "Save Our Souls" — that story came later. It was picked in 1906 and formalized in 1908 because three dots, three dashes, three dots is instantly recognizable, even through heavy static or partial reception.
Timing is the foundation of Morse. Every element is a multiple of one base unit — the unit itself has no fixed length, but the proportions must never change. The translator above lets you tune this with the Speed and Farnsworth sliders. For WPM conversion tables and Farnsworth spacing formulas, see our complete Morse code timing guide.
Notice how letter gaps (3 units) are visibly wider than the gaps inside a letter (1 unit), and dashes are exactly 3× the width of dots.
O starts to look like S."Morse code" is really a family of codes. Different regions, eras and scripts produced their own dialects — all built on the same dot-and-dash foundation.
The modern global standard — 26 Latin letters, 10 digits, punctuation and prosigns. Used everywhere from ham radio to aviation beacons.
The original code used on U.S. landline telegraphs. Variable-length dashes and internal spaces — faster on wires, harder on radio. Largely obsolete.
Gerke's 1848 revision for German telegraphs. Cleaned up ambiguities and became the direct ancestor of International Morse.
Maps Japanese kana (not letters) to dot-dash sequences. Still used by Japanese amateur radio operators today.
Encodes Hangul jamo (consonants and vowels) so Korean can be sent over the same two-symbol channel.
28-letter mapping developed for Arabic-language telegraphy, used across the Middle East and North Africa.
International Morse covers the Latin alphabet, but many languages extend it with characters for local scripts.
International Morse adds mappings for accented Latin characters used in European languages — indispensable for names, place names and legal text.
However you found Morse code, there's a path here for you.
Practice CW timing and prosigns at real ITU spacing before you're on the air. Try CW Academy.
Turn history and STEM lessons interactive — decode SOS, prosigns, and the alphabet by ear or by light.
Build and share a Morse puzzle with the secret-message link above, or crack one a friend sent you.
Learn to send and recognize SOS with a flashlight or a whistle when there's no signal.
Practice single-switch, blink, or tap-based Morse input — the same system behind iOS's built-in Morse keyboard.
Generate accurate, ITU-timed clues with downloadable audio for props and puzzles.
SOS (· · · − − − · · ·) remains the world's most recognized distress signal — used at sea, in aviation, and in remote survival situations where no radio infrastructure exists.
Ham radio operators worldwide still use Continuous Wave Morse. The ITU officially recognizes CW, and it punches through weak signals where voice fails. Want to learn it properly? Try CW Academy.
People with severe physical disabilities communicate via single-switch, eye-blink, or sip-and-puff Morse input. Apple's iOS ships with a Morse keyboard.
VOR and NDB radio beacons transmit their station identifiers in Morse — pilots verify every navaid by ear before trusting it.
Nearly two centuries after its invention, Morse code keeps earning its place — precisely because it does more with less than anything that came after it.
Filmmakers love Morse — it's visual, audible, and instantly signals tension, secrecy or last-resort survival. A few standouts:
Survivors coordinate a global counter-attack using Morse when digital comms are jammed.
Cooper transmits quantum data to Murph as Morse ticks on a wristwatch's second hand.
Bletchley Park intercepts of German naval Morse drive the plot around cracking Enigma.
Wireless operators tap out CQD and then SOS as the ship goes down — historically accurate.
Coded Morse tapping is used in tense underground signalling scenes.
US Marines rely on Morse alongside Navajo code talking for secure Pacific-front comms.
Because dots and dashes can be rendered as any pair of shapes, Morse has become one of the most popular ways to hide a private message inside a piece of jewellery.
Round beads = dots, oblong beads = dashes. Spell a partner's name, a birth year, or a private mantra that only you can read.
A slim gold or silver bar engraved with a dot-and-dash pattern — 'love', 'brave', 'mama' are the most popular hidden words.
Wedding bands with a Morse phrase etched inside the band — a message worn against the skin, visible only to the wearer.
Alternating stone shapes or metal segments encode short words. Great for gifts because the meaning is personal, not obvious.
= LOVE — four beads, four bars, ready to string. Spelling out a name instead? Try the Name in Morse tool.
Everything you need to know about international Morse code timing, character translations, audio synthesis, and history.