morse2ascii(1)

tool for decoding the morse codes from a PCM WAV file

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Description

MORSE2ASCII

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