How to use it
Choose a direction and type. Text to Morse turns letters, numbers and common punctuation into dots and dashes, with a space between letters and a slash between words. Morse to text reads dots (.) and dashes (-) the same way; spaces separate letters and a slash or three spaces separate words. The look-alike characters • · – — are accepted too. Press Play it to hear the code as a 600 Hz tone and watch the lamp flash, at a speed from 5 to 30 words per minute.
About Morse code
Morse code was invented in the 1830s and 1840s for the telegraph. Each character is a pattern of short signals (dots) and long ones (dashes). A dash lasts three dots, the gap between parts of a letter is one dot, between letters three dots and between words seven. The most famous signal, ... --- ..., is SOS, the international distress call. It can be sent with sound, light, a torch, a tap or a whistle.
Questions
Why do some characters get skipped? Morse has no code for every symbol; the page lists the ones it skipped. Accents are not translated. Is anything sent anywhere? No, everything including the sound is made in your browser. Need other codes? See the Text to Binary, Hex & ASCII tool.