MORSE2ASCII(1)

📦 version 0.2.1, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 MORSE2ASCII — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, this is the morse2ascii(1) page from the User Commands section, and I'm gonna walk you through it like we're texting at 2am 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

morse2ascii — it's literally the tool that decodes morse code straight out of a PCM WAV file 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

morse2ascii [options] <file.WAV/TXT>

that's it, that's the whole vibe 💅

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

so the way this works is volume/peak based — it listens to how loud and how peaky the signal is to figure out the dots and dashes. it can decode morse from a PCM WAV file, and also from text and RAW PCM files, which is lowkey iconic of it 🌈

it's also got some options for parsing abbreviations, prosigns, and qcodes, so it's not just doing the bare minimum, it's giving range 👑

🫶 OPTIONS 🫶

  • -a — abbreviations and prosigns parsing. it gets the shorthand, no cap ✨
  • -q — q-codes parsing. all those Q-thingies? handled 💜
  • -r F C B — treat the file as raw headerless PCM data. you must specify the Frequency, Channels and Bits, like -r 44100 2 16 📻
  • -o — disables the automatic optimizations: DC bias adjust and normalize. only use this if your file is already clean and normalized, fr fr 🧼
  • -m — morse notation output (like ...___... instead of SOS). it's a debug thing 👀
  • -w FILE — debug option that dumps the handled samples from memory out to FILE 💾
  • -d — debug info. WAV input only, just so you know 💀
📝 Note: the input file can be a PCM WAV audio file, or it can be a text file that uses the dotlinespace notation (._ or .-), dit-dah, binary, and others. and if you use - as the file, it reads a text stream from stdin 🌸

okay so that's the whole page and honestly? it ate. morse2ascii 0.2, from October 2013 — vintage but still slaying 💖 mwah, go decode something bestie 🎀✨🦋

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