Easy Morse Code

Plenty of sites turn text into dots and dashes. Easy Morse Code puts more weight on hearing them. After you type a message, Play sounds it out and highlights each character in time, so you can follow the rhythm instead of just reading symbols. Select one character to hear it on its own, pause and resume, or pick a passage and loop it. The audio settings start at 20 words per minute and 600 Hz, and you can change both. When you're done, copy the text, download it as TXT, or save the sound as a WAV file.

Going the other way works too. Paste dots and dashes with a space between characters and a slash or double space between words, and the decoder fills in the text. Anything it can't recognize is marked with its position so you can fix it rather than guess. It reads written Morse only. It won't decode an audio recording or listen through your microphone.

The site explains timing in plain terms. A dot is one beat, a dash is three, the gap inside a letter is one beat, between letters three and between words seven, and at 20 WPM a beat is 60 milliseconds. Ordinary timing follows ITU-R M.1677-1, and Farnsworth spacing, which stretches the gaps so learners can recognize characters at full speed, uses the PARIS method described by the ARRL.

From there you can open an alphabet chart covering letters, numbers and supported punctuation, which you can see, hear and print. Practice rounds train your ear and tapping one character at a time, and six short lessons cover the basics. There's also a name designer with printable patterns and a way to share a Morse message or puzzle with someone.

Everything above is free and needs no sign-up, and the translator labels its processing as on your device. That makes it an easy link to hand a student, a scout troop or anyone curious about how SOS actually sounds.