What's the difference between morse-to-text and morse-to-English?

In practice, nothing — the international morse alphabet is an encoding of English letters. Our morse-to-English page emphasizes decoding tattoos and transmissions; this page emphasizes the pure technical conversion of morse glyphs to readable text.

Does this handle morse numbers?

Yes. Each digit 0–9 has a fixed five-element morse code. A sentence like `... --- ... / --... ...--` returns SOS 73 — 73 being ham radio shorthand for 'best regards'.

What if I just have a string of dots and dashes with no spaces?

Without gap information, decoding is ambiguous — the same string of pulses can parse to different words. You'll need to re-insert letter gaps by hand where you think they belong. Most photos of morse jewelry or tattoos have visible gaps you can match.

Morse Code to Text – Convert Dots & Dashes to Letters

When people need this direction

You received a string of dots and dashes in a chat, a game, or a puzzle, and need plain text fast.
You're quoting a morse transmission inside a blog post, Git commit, or documentation — and want the decoded caption inline.
You're reverse-engineering a morse-coded name or slogan printed on merchandise.
You're building a crossword or escape-room clue and testing whether the clue decodes cleanly.

Input conventions the converter accepts

Any combination of . and -, separated by single spaces for letter breaks and / for word breaks.
Typographic variants — en-dashes, em-dashes, bullets, and middle-dots are all auto-normalized to the ASCII hyphen/dot before parsing. Paste from Google Docs without cleaning beforehand.
Line breaks in the input are treated as word boundaries. You can paste a multi-line morse sentence and the output comes back on one line.

What “clean text” output means

Unknown morse sequences are silently skipped rather than replaced with ? — so if your input has one typo, you still get the rest of the sentence. The output preserves word breaks as single spaces and returns uppercase letters (morse has no lowercase). If you need lower-case, just call .toLowerCase() on the result.

From a flashing light or a tap to text

Morse doesn't always arrive as neat dots and dashes — sometimes it's a flashing light in a video, a beeping tone in an audio clip, or a tapped rhythm. This converter works on the written form, so the job is to transcribe first, convert second. For a flashing light, step through the clip frame by frame: a brief flash is a dot, a flash about three times as long is a dash, and the dark gaps tell you where letters and words end. Write the pattern down as dots, dashes, spaces and slashes, then paste it above and the tool returns the text. The same approach works for a recording — note short beeps versus long ones — or for a rhythm tapped on a table.

Morse in puzzles, games, and escape rooms

The biggest real-world use of morse-to-text isn't radio at all — it's puzzles. Escape rooms hide morse in flashing lamps and audio loops; geocaching clues bury coordinates in dots and dashes; and video games from horror titles to adventure puzzles use morse as a cipher for codes and passwords. If you've been handed a string of . and - as a puzzle, paste it straight in. If it's a light or a sound, transcribe it first using the method above. And if the decode looks like nonsense, the usual culprit is spacing — try re-inserting the letter gaps where the pattern seems to pause, since puzzle-setters don't always mark them cleanly.