---
name: "morse2ascii"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "morse2ascii"
version: "0.2.1+dfsg-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/morse2ascii"
---

# morse2ascii(1)

tool for decoding the morse codes from a PCM WAV file

## NAME

morse2ascii - tool for decoding the morse codes from a PCM WAV file

## SYNOPSIS

**morse2ascii** \[*options*\] *\<file.WAV/TXT\>*

## DESCRIPTION

This tool employs a volume/peak based method to decode the morse codes from a PCM WAV file as well as from text and RAW PCM files.

It contains some options for parsing abbreviations, prosigns and qcodes.

## OPTIONS

**-a**	abbreviations and prosigns parsing

**-q**	q-codes parsing

**-r** F C B	consider the file as raw headerless PCM data, you must specify the Frequency, Channels and Bits like **-r** 44100 2 16

**-o**	disable the automatic optimizations: DC bias adjust and normalize. Use this option only if your file is already clean and normalized

**-m**	morse notation output (like ...\_\_\_... instead of SOS), debug

**-w** FILE	debug option for dumping the handled samples from the memory to FILE

**-d**	debug info (WAV input only)

Note: the input file can be a PCM WAV audio file or also a text file which uses the dotlinespace notation (.\_ or .-), dit-dah, binary and others use - as file for reading a text stream from stdin