This video of a voice assistant reading emoji out loud is honestly glorious

"Two nerd faces"

Having a voice assistant read your texts aloud for you while you drive is really convenient, not to mention safer than trying to read them yourself.

But if your texts were sent to you by a child or anyone else communicating exclusively using emoji, you're in for a wild ride.

On Twitter, creative director Aaron Reynolds shared a video of an assistant -- which sounds like Siri, although it isn't specified -- reading out a text from his daughter. It's basically just one comically long thread of emoji.

After concluding that the text consists of no less than 35 emoji, the assistant puts on a brave face and reads them all aloud.

Here's a transcript of that glorious text. "A grinning face, a sunglasses face, a crazy face, seven smiley faces, a face crying with laughter, two faces with tongue out, two faces with monocles, two smirking faces, three party faces, a goofy face, three kissing faces, an upside-down face, two faces rolling on the floor laughing, a sad face, an unamused face, two nerd faces, three winking faces, and a worried face."

Beside the fact that "nerd face" is a surprisingly savage burn from a virtual assistant, the ability to narrate emoji like this is honestly impressive.

Another Twitter user pointed out that there's one emoji that's particularly joyous to hear read aloud.

A smiley face, a sunglasses face, a face with tongue out.

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