Morse Code Encoder
Type text, hear and see it in Morse — or decode dots and dashes back to text
Text → Morse
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About: Morse code was developed by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail in the 1830s for telegraph communication. A dot (dit) is 1 unit; a dash (dah) is 3 units; inter-element gap is 1 unit; inter-letter gap is 3 units; inter-word gap is 7 units. Speed is measured in words per minute, calibrated to the word "PARIS" (50 units). The code assigned shorter sequences to more frequent letters — an early information-theoretic optimization, predating Shannon's entropy by over a century.