Is there a framework or function for turning emoji into words?

Question

I'm making an app which reads text aloud. I want to be able to convert the emoji into speech as well by using their names.

So

-> Grinning Face

-> Smiling Face With Open Mouth and Smiling Eyes

-> Speak-No-Evil Monkey

And so on.

Is there a framework or function to achieve this?

Cheers.

Answer 1

This links to a repository containing the mapping from emoji unicode to description. Also check this answer.

To read it out, get familiar with AvSpeechSynthesizer