Morse Code Translator

A way of encoding text as sequences of short and long signals — dots and dashes — originally developed in the 1830s-40s by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail for the electric telegraph. Each letter, digit, and common punctuation mark has its own fixed dot/dash pattern, standardized internationally so operators anywhere could understand each other over a wire (and later, over radio) using nothing but on/off clicks or tones.

Morse timing follows a strict ratio, not arbitrary spacing: a dash lasts exactly 3 times as long as a dot, the gap between dots/dashes within one letter is 1 dot-length, the gap between letters is 3 dot-lengths, and the gap between words is 7 dot-lengths. This is what makes the audio playback here sound like genuine Morse rhythm rather than a random string of beeps — and it's also why the spacing in the text output (single space between letters, "/" between words) is meaningful rather than cosmetic.

Letters within a word are separated by a single space between their dot/dash groups, and words are separated by " / ". Converting Morse back to text expects the same convention (falling back to a run of two or more spaces as a word boundary if no "/" is present) — anything that doesn't parse as a recognized letter is shown in the output wrapped in brackets rather than silently dropped.

No. Translation is a simple lookup-table transform, and audio playback uses the Web Audio API to synthesize tones directly in your browser — no files, no server round-trip. Nothing you type or play is transmitted, logged, or stored.