diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 14cace5..d7c5e8c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -14,4 +14,6 @@ pyttsx3==2.90
 Pillow~=9.3.0
 tomlkit==0.11.4
 Flask==2.2.2
-spacy==3.4.1
+clean-text==0.6.0
+unidecode==1.3.2
+spacy==3.4.1
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diff --git a/utils/.config.template.toml b/utils/.config.template.toml
index 6a7b024..4fe15fe 100644
--- a/utils/.config.template.toml
+++ b/utils/.config.template.toml
@@ -43,3 +43,4 @@ tiktok_voice = { optional = true, default = "en_us_006", example = "en_us_006",
 python_voice = { optional = true, default = "1", example = "1", explanation = "The index of the system tts voices (can be downloaded externally, run ptt.py to find value, start from zero)" }
 py_voice_num = { optional = true, default = "2", example = "2", explanation = "The number of system voices (2 are pre-installed in Windows)" }
 silence_duration = { optional = true, example = "0.1", explanation = "Time in seconds between TTS comments", default = 0.3, type = "float" }
+no_emojis = { optional = false, type = "bool", default = false, example = false, options = [true, false,], explanation = "Whether to remove emojis from the comments" }
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diff --git a/utils/voice.py b/utils/voice.py
index 5606023..a88c87d 100644
--- a/utils/voice.py
+++ b/utils/voice.py
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ from time import sleep
 
 from requests import Response
 
+from utils import settings
+from cleantext import clean
+
 if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
     from datetime import timezone
 
@@ -86,5 +89,10 @@ def sanitize_text(text: str) -> str:
     regex_expr = r"\s['|’]|['|’]\s|[\^_~@!&;#:\-%—“”‘\"%\*/{}\[\]\(\)\\|<>=+]"
     result = re.sub(regex_expr, " ", result)
     result = result.replace("+", "plus").replace("&", "and")
+    
+    # emoji removal if the setting is enabled
+    if settings.config["settings"]["tts"]["no_emojis"]:
+        result = clean(result, no_emoji=True)
+        
     # remove extra whitespace
     return " ".join(result.split())