The ability to accurately perceive emotions is important in many aspects of life because it can interpret human reactions to certain situations, predict behaviors that may follow and further encourage or prevent them if necessary. During the perception of emotions, people use different sources of information, including their visual and auditory channels, which are necessary for effective communication and social interaction. There are situations where one of these channels may be unavailable and it's useful to know how to rely on the other. Most of the researches were based on investigating perception of emotions only through one of the channels, visual or auditory, and fewer were investigating the relationship between different channels through which emotions can be perceived and which of them is potentially more dominant. The aim of this research was to examine the perception of four emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, fear) through auditory (speech), visual (facial expression) and audio-visual (speech and facial expression) channel in men and women. The sample of examinees consisted of five students engaged in acting (three men and two women) who were recorded how they vividly present these emotions through speech and facial expression. The research material consisted of 60 audio, video and audi-visual recordings of neutral sentence „She was sitting in a big red car.“. The evaluators were 45 people aged 22 to 31 (25 women and 20 men) from different colleges and professions who were, via the ZOOM platform, first listened to audio, then watched the video and finally audio-visual recordings and wrote emotions for which they thought were present into the Word table they got before the research. The results were processed in Microsoft Excel. The chi-square test showed statistically significant differences in the perception of emotions through the auditory, visual and audio-visual channels and that there are no statistically significant differences between men and women.