Support
Help with MorseSpeaker 1.0
Contact: email morsespeaker@tbaker.com and a real person will reply. Accessibility reports — VoiceOver, low vision, or any assistive setup — are read first.
Before anything else
Most decoding problems are signal problems, and the app tells you about them as they happen. If the orange Signal weak alert appears, raise the radio volume or move the phone closer until it goes away. If the gray No Morse detected alert appears, confirm Morse is actually playing and audible from where the phone sits.
Common questions
Nothing decodes at all
- Check that MorseSpeaker has microphone permission: Settings → Privacy & Security → Microphone → MorseSpeaker.
- Place the phone 6–10 inches from the radio speaker, bottom edge (where the microphone is) facing it.
- Give the app a few seconds after the Morse starts — the footer changes from “scanning for tone…” to “locked” when it has found the signal.
Letters decode but words are garbled
- Moderate volume beats loud: a blasting speaker adds room echo that smears the gaps between marks. Lower the volume until the signal alert stays off and copy usually cleans up.
- Reduce competing sound — a loud TV or conversation near the phone can briefly blind detection.
- Very hard rooms (bare walls, glass) echo more; a change of room or a nearby soft surface can noticeably improve copy.
Text appears but nothing is spoken
- Check the phone's media volume — spoken output follows it.
- With earbuds connected, the voice goes to the earbuds, not the phone speaker — by design, so the microphone never hears it.
A callsign or Q-code was changed
It shouldn't be — word correction is built to never touch words containing digits (all callsigns), Q-codes, or common ham shorthand. If you see one altered anyway, that's a bug worth reporting; include the word as sent and as displayed. You can also turn correction off entirely with the Fix words switch.
Sending a useful bug report
The app carries its own diagnostics. Press and hold the “MorseSpeaker” title for about a second — a full diagnostic report (decoded text plus technical readings) is copied to your clipboard. Paste it into an email to morsespeaker@tbaker.com along with what you were listening to and what you expected. That one paste usually contains everything needed to find the problem.
What to include in any support email
- The diagnostic report (long-press the title, paste)
- Your iPhone model and iOS version
- The Morse source (rig, recording, practice file) and its approximate speed
- Whether earbuds were connected