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Turns text into the NATO phonetic alphabet, one code word per character, and reads a list of code words back into text. Each character is looked up in a fixed table of 26 letters plus 10 digits; anything outside that table is reported as having no code and is left out of the spoken line. The lookup runs in the page, so the text you type never leaves it.
How to use it
- Type or paste text into the Input box - the box starts with HELLO.
- Press Process. The tool uppercases the input and prints one line per character, then a Spoken line with the code words joined by spaces.
- To decode instead, enter the code words separated by spaces or commas and press Process. The tool detects the direction on its own.
Worked example
SOSbecomesInput: SOS
S ā Sierra
O ā Oscar
S ā Sierra
ā Spoken: Sierra Oscar SierraSierra Oscar SierrabecomesInput (NATO): Sierra Oscar Sierra
ā Text: SOSEvery space-separated word matched a code word, so the tool switched to decode mode and returned the letters instead.
When to use it
- Spelling a reference number or a name over the phone without repeating yourself.
- Reading a licence plate, callsign or serial aloud in a noisy room.
- Decoding a string of code words you were given and need as plain text.
What it does not do
- Only A-Z and 0-9 have code words. Punctuation, accents and emoji appear in the per-character list as "(no NATO code ā skipped)" and are absent from the Spoken line, so "AB 7" speaks as "Alfa Bravo Seven" with the space dropped.
- Decode mode only triggers when every word is a code word. "Sierra Oscar, over" falls back to encode mode and spells those words out letter by letter.
- Code words are compared after uppercasing, so "x-ray" and "X-RAY" both decode to X. The output is always plain text - there is no audio playback.