Free Morse code translator and decoder
Type text to get Morse code, or paste dots and dashes to read them in English.
Play the result as sound, light or vibration, or save it as an MP3. Free, in your browser.
This is the real translator. Type anything.
Try an example:
Each letter shows here with its dots and dashes. Select one to play from it.
Every letter, drawn to time
A dot is one unit
The shortest signal, and the gap inside a letter.
A dash is three
Three dots long, as is the gap between letters.
Press play to hear it
Each letter plays at 18 WPM. Open a tile for its own page.
Five steps
Type or paste your message into the box. The translation appears as you type. Paste dots and dashes and the translator switches to Morse to text on its own, with an Undo if you meant it as text.
Writing Morse yourself? Leave one space between letters and a slash between words, so .... .. / - .... . .-. . reads HI THERE. Pasted Morse in another format usually works too; see how it reads what you paste.
Press Play. Choose Sound, Light or Vibrate, and set the Speed and Tone on the player bar; each setting is explained below.
Copy the result, or share it as a link or as a puzzle your friend has to solve. For dots and dashes styled to paste into a text or a bio, use Morse code copy and paste.
Download it as MP3 audio, WAV audio or a text file to keep a copy.
Every control
Speed and Tone sit on the player bar. Farnsworth spacing, word spacing, Repeat, Volume and the sound are under Timing and sound. Reset to defaults puts them all back.
To keep a copy with these settings, download the MP3 from the translator, or use the Morse code generator for counted repeats and radio static.
The standard
The translator times Morse the way ITU-R Recommendation M.1677-1 sets it out, in units. A dot is one unit and a dash is three; the gap inside a letter is one unit, between letters three and between words seven. Words per minute are counted with the word PARIS, exactly 50 units long with the word gap after it, so one unit lasts 1,200 ms divided by the speed: 66.7 ms at the translator’s 18 WPM. The sound, the light, the vibration and the MP3 all follow the same units, so the message has the rhythm of real Morse and not a row of evenly spaced beeps.
Messy input welcome
Morse copied from a puzzle, a forum or a chat rarely comes in one neat format. These are the cases the translator handles, each run through it as you read this page.
One or two spaces separate letters. A slash, a pipe, a backslash, a line break, a tab or three spaces separate words. A code the table doesn’t have shows as a question mark, and a note under the box says how many there were.
Morse has codes for letters, digits and some punctuation, and nothing else. The translator never guesses a code: it sends a close letter where one exists and leaves the rest out, naming them under the box.
Letters are sent the same in capitals and small letters, since Morse has no case. The full lists are on the punctuation, numbers and accented letters pages, and the prosigns are with the abbreviations and Q codes.
Morse written with no spaces at all can be read more than one way, so this translator won’t split it for you; the Morse decoder without spaces lists the likeliest readings. For Morse you hear or see rather than type, the Morse code audio translator reads a recording and the Morse code image translator reads a photo or screenshot.
Try a message
Each card plays at 18 WPM, the translator’s own speed. Check any code by hand against the Morse code alphabet chart. To send your own, type it in the translator above.
Every Morse code phraseText to Morse code
SOS
The distress signal
... --- ...
HELLO
.... . .-.. .-.. ---
I LOVE YOU
.. / .-.. --- ...- . / -.-- --- ..-
HELP
.... . .-.. .--.
THANK YOU
- .... .- -. -.- / -.-- --- ..-
73
Best regards, in radio shorthand
--... ...--
And the other way, from Morse to English
.... .. / - .... . .-. .
Reads HI THERE
-.-. --.-
Calling any station
Reads CQ
--. --- --- -.. / -- --- .-. -. .. -. --.
Reads GOOD MORNING
Both directions
Morse code is a fixed table of dots and dashes, one pattern per letter, digit or punctuation mark. The translator looks every character up in that table, so it swaps letters for codes and back; it doesn’t translate between languages. Each direction also has a page of its own with more options.
Each letter becomes its pattern, with one space between letters and a slash between words: .... . .-.. .-.. --- is HELLO. Digits are always five signals, from .---- for 1 to ----- for 0.
For whole sentences, names, and copying one word per line or with · and — symbols for print, open the English to Morse page.
English to Morse code translatorPaste dots and dashes and read the message in capitals. No Morse to paste? Tap it in with the dot and dash keys under the box, or have the result read aloud.
To check a message letter by letter, with each code and what it stands for side by side, open the Morse code to English page.
Morse code to EnglishLanguages written in Latin letters, such as Spanish, French and German, use International Morse. For another script, pick its code table above the box before you type or paste.
| Code table | Used for |
|---|---|
| International | The ITU standard: English and most languages written in Latin letters, plus É, Ä, Ö, Ü, Ñ and the other accented letters in on-air use |
| American (Railroad) | The original 1840s landline code, with its spaced letters and long dashes |
| Russian (Cyrillic) | Russian and other Cyrillic text |
| Greek | Greek letters |
| Hebrew | Hebrew letters, final forms sent as their base letter |
| Arabic | Arabic letters |
| Japanese (Wabun) | Kana, sent with the Japanese Wabun code (Wabun code translator) |
| Korean (SKATS) | Hangul, sent with the Korean SKATS mapping |
.--. .-. .. .-- . - is ПРИВЕТ (hello). Many Cyrillic letters share a pattern with a Latin one, so П is sent like P.--- (three dashes). Read more about American Morse code and Japanese Morse code.--.--), so pick International for Spanish, French or German. Military Morse code is International Morse too.Learn by ear
Learn every character at full speed from the first lesson. Start with K and M, then add the next character each time you copy 90% of a lesson correctly.
Start the Koch method course53 free tools
Decoders, senders, trainers and games. 53 tools, all free, no sign-up, and each one runs in your browser.
Latest guides
Trust and limits
On your device
Runs in your browser
This free Morse code translator works online in your browser: the text you type, the audio and the light are made on your device and nothing is uploaded.
In the link
Share links stay private
A shared link carries the message after the # in the address, which never reaches our server.
Know the limits
What it does not do
The translator reads typed dots, dashes and gaps. It doesn’t split Morse written with no spaces, and it doesn’t listen to sound; the decoders do that. A message can be up to 5,000 characters.
ITU-R M.1677-1
Tested against the standard
Every table is tested: each code decodes back to its own character and no two characters share a code, and every example on this page is checked against the translator by a test. Timing follows ITU-R M.1677-1. Built by Aman Singh for Translate Morse Code, an independent site; last updated November 2026.
Good questions
Everything you need to know about the translator
Still have questions? Contact us
Paste it into the translator above: it switches to Morse to text on its own and the English appears straight away. With one space between letters and a slash between words, .. / .-.. --- ...- . / -.-- --- ..- reads I LOVE YOU, and most other spacing works too.
To check it by hand, look each pattern up in the Morse code alphabet. For Morse you hear, see or photograph, the decoders read it for you.
Write each letter as its dots and dashes, leave one space between letters and put a slash between words. HELP ME is .... . .-.. .--. / -- ., with the slash marking the gap between the two words. Or type the words into the translator above and copy the result, ready to paste.
It reads MT. Underscores are a common way to type dashes, so two then one is -- -, M then T. The translator reads underscores, long dashes and round dots as dashes and dots, so you can paste a message as you found it.
No. Morse code isn’t one of the languages Google Translate supports, so it can’t turn dots and dashes into words or back.
Gboard, Google’s phone keyboard, has a Morse layout for typing in dots and dashes, but it doesn’t read a message back to you. Paste the message into the translator above instead.
A chatbot can often get a short message right, but it writes an answer it predicts rather than looking each code up, so letters can slip in longer messages. Morse is a fixed table, so a table-based translator like this one gives the same exact answer every time. If you use a chatbot, paste its answer here to check it.
ARE YOU THERE? is .- .-. . / -.-- --- ..- / - .... . .-. . ..--.., ending on the question mark. Type any phrase into the translator to get its code and press Play to hear it at 18 WPM.
You don’t need to install one. This translator and its decoders work in any phone browser: paste dots and dashes, play a recording, point the microphone decoder at the sound or the Morse code light translator at a flashing lamp. You can add the site to your home screen to open it like an app.
No. Languages written in Latin letters share International Morse and add their accented letters, such as Ñ --.-- in Spanish.
Russian, Greek, Hebrew and Arabic have their own tables built from the same dots and dashes, and Russian П is sent like P, .--. in both. Japanese uses the Wabun code and Korean the SKATS mapping. Pick the table above the box.
No. 143 is a pager-era number code for I love you (1, 4 and 3 are the letters in each word), not Morse code.
In Morse, I love you is .. / .-.. --- ...- . / -.-- --- ..-, and the number 143 is .---- ....- ...--, three digits of five signals each. The I love you in Morse code page plays it and links to tools that flash it or make it into a bracelet, necklace or tattoo.
Last checked November 2026
One line away
Your next message is one line away.
Free, no sign-up, in your browser.
An outside opinion
Already have an AI you turn to? Let it help you decide if this is the right Morse code tool for you.
Opens your chosen AI. Sign-in and prompt support vary; you can copy the question below.
I'm thinking about using Translate Morse Code (https://translatemorsecode.com/) to translate and learn Morse code. What does it do well, what are its limits, and is it a good fit for me? Please look at the site itself before answering.
AI can get details wrong. The quickest check is the translator itself: it is free and needs no sign-up.