Morse Code Audio Translator
Type a message, hear it sent as real Morse code tones, and download it as a WAV file you can keep. Speed, pitch and volume are all adjustable, and the timing follows the standard PARIS model, so what you practise with here matches what you will hear anywhere else.
Letters A–Z, digits 0–9 and spaces. 3/300 characters.
Learning pace
600–800 Hz is easiest on the ear
Baked into the file, not just playback
Morse
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Ready-made practice audio
These are permanent WAV files, not generated on the fly — play them here, or right-click to save them for offline practice.
SOS — the distress call
10 WPM · 3sThree dits, three dahs, three dits, sent as one unbroken letter in real use.
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Download this WAVHELLO WORLD
12 WPM · 11sTwo words, so you can hear the long seven-unit gap between them.
.... . .-.. .-.. --- / .-- --- .-. .-.. -..
Download this WAVA to Z at 8 WPM
8 WPM · 43sEvery letter, slowly, for copying practice with the chart in front of you.
.- -... -.-. -.. . ..-. --. .... .. .--- -.- .-.. -- -. --- .--. --.- .-. ... - ..- ...- .-- -..- -.-- --..
Download this WAV0 to 9 at 8 WPM
8 WPM · 25sAll ten digits — each is five symbols long, which makes them easy to spot.
----- .---- ..--- ...-- ....- ..... -.... --... ---.. ----.
Download this WAVPractice sentence at 15 WPM
15 WPM · 33sA pangram at conversational speed, once slow copying feels comfortable.
- .... . / --.- ..- .. -.-. -.- / -... .-. --- .-- -. / ..-. --- -..- / .--- ..- -- .--. ... / --- ...- . .-. / - .... . / .-.. .- --.. -.-- / -.. --- --.
Download this WAVHow Morse timing works
Reading dots and dashes off a chart is the easy half. The half that decides whether anyone can copy you is the spacing, and every gap is measured in the same unit as a dot:
| Element | Length | At 12 WPM |
|---|---|---|
| Dot (dit) | 1 unit of tone | 100 ms |
| Dash (dah) | 3 units of tone | 300 ms |
| Gap inside a letter | 1 unit of silence | 100 ms |
| Gap between letters | 3 units of silence | 300 ms |
| Gap between words | 7 units of silence | 700 ms |
One unit is 1200 / WPM milliseconds — 100 ms at the 12 WPM you have selected. That formula comes from the word PARIS, which is exactly 50 units long, so sending PARIS once a second is 60 WPM by definition.
Where to go next
- Print the Morse code chart and keep it beside you while you copy the slow A–Z file above.
- Prefer reading to listening? The Morse code translator converts text and back again on the page.
- For classroom use there is a Morse code worksheet with an answer key.
- Morse alongside other beginner codes: secret codes for kids.