Morse Code Translator

Morse code represents every letter, digit, and common punctuation mark as a short sequence of dots and dashes. It was built in the 1830s for telegraph wires, but it survived because it needs almost nothing to carry a message: a key, a lamp, a whistle, or a finger tapping on a pipe will do. A Morse code translator handles the lookup in both directions, so you can turn English into Morse code or read a string of dots and dashes back as plain text without memorising the chart.

Morse code is a signalling code, not encryption. The chart is public and unchanged since 1865, so anything written in Morse can be read by anyone who has it — treat it as a way to transmit a message, never as a way to hide one. Its best-known sequence, SOS, is three dots, three dashes, three dots (... --- ...) sent as one unbroken run, chosen precisely because that rhythm is unmistakable even through noise. Timing is what makes Morse readable by ear: a dash lasts three times as long as a dot, the gap inside a letter lasts one dot, the gap between letters lasts three, and the gap between words lasts seven. This translator plays back at exactly that ratio — a 60 ms dot and a 180 ms dash — so what you hear matches the rhythm real operators send.

Everything runs in your browser, so the text you translate is never uploaded or stored. If you are moving between other character encodings, the text to binary converter handles bits, the Base64 encoder and decoder handles transport-safe strings, and the case converter tidies up text before you translate it.