I consider the five contributions in this special section as evidence that the research area dealing with the vocal expression of emotion is advancing rapidly, both in terms of the number of pertinent empirical studies and with respect to an ever increasing sophistication of methodology. I provide some suggestions on promising areas for future interdisciplinary research, including work on emotion expression in singing and the potential of vocal symptoms of emotional disorder. As to the popular discussion of the respective role of universality versus language/culture differences, I suggest to move on from exclusively studying the accuracy of recognition in judgment studies to a more differentiated approach adding production aspects, taking into account the multiple vocal and acoustic features that interact to communicate emotion.

我认为，在这一特殊部分中的五项贡献可以证明，无论是在相关的实证研究的数量上还是在方法学的不断完善方面，涉及情感的声音表达的研究领域都在迅速发展。我为未来的跨学科研究提供了一些有希望的领域的建议，包括关于唱歌中的情绪表达以及情绪障碍的声音症状潜能的研究。关于普遍性与语言/文化差异各自作用的流行讨论，我建议从专门研究判断研究中识别的准确性转向考虑到声音和听觉的多种多样的，增加生产方面的差异化方法。互动交流情感。