in reply to Morse code via sound card input
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use Audio::Data; use Audio::Play; my $freq = 400; my $dot = 0.07; my $dash = 3*$dot; my %morse = ( A => '.-', B => '-...', C => '-.-.', D => '-..', E => '.', F => '..-.', G => '--.', H => '....', I => '..', J => '.---', K => '-.-', L=> '.-..', M => '--', N => '-.', O => '---', P => '.--.', Q => '--.-', R => '.-.', S => '...', T => '-', U => '..-', V => '...-', W => '.--', X => '-..-', Y => '-.--', Z => '--..', 1 => '.----', 2 => '..---', 3 => '...--', 4 => '....-', 5 => '.....', 6 => '-....', 7 => '--...', 8 => '---..', 9 => '----.', 0 => '-----', ' ' => ' '); my $au = Audio::Data->new(rate => 8000); sub morse { my ($au,$s) = @_; while (length $s) { my $sym = $morse{uc(substr($s,0,1))}; if (defined $sym) { while (length($sym)) { for (substr($sym,0,1)) { $au->tone($freq,$dot) if (/\./); $au->tone($freq,$dash) if (/-/); $au->silence(3*$dash) if (/\s/); } $au->silence($dot); substr($sym,0,1) = ""; } $au->silence($dash); } substr($s,0,1) = ""; } } foreach (@ARGV) { morse($au,$_); } my $svr = Audio::Play->new; $svr->play($au); open(F,">out.au") || die; $au->Save(\*F); close(F); system("sox out.au -u data/out1.wav");
But as I was trying to think of ways to overcome all these obstacles, the thought occurred.... why even use Morse? Frequency Shift Keying (30 different frequencies, separated by 250 Hz), with each freq assigned a letter or punctuation mark, would be so much more reliable, faster, and easier to decode with digital audio analysis.
I guess old Morse still has its uses though.
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