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The auditory steady-state response (ASSR) allows estimation of hearing thresholds. The ASSR can be estimated from electroencephalography (EEG) recordings from electrodes positioned on both the scalp and within the ear (ear-EEG). Ear-EEG can potentially be integrated into hearing aids, which would enable automatic fitting of the hearing device in daily life. The conventional stimuli for ASSR-based hearing assessment, such as pure tones and chirps, are monotonous and tiresome, making them inconvenient for repeated use in everyday situations. In this study we investigate the use of natural speech sounds for ASSR estimation. <jats:italic>Approach.<\/jats:italic> EEG was recorded from 22 normal hearing subjects from both scalp and ear electrodes. Subjects were stimulated monaurally with 180 min of speech stimulus modified by applying a 40 Hz amplitude modulation (AM) to an octave frequency sub-band centered at 1 kHz. Each 50 ms sub-interval in the AM sub-band was scaled to match one of 10 pre-defined levels (0\u201345 dB sensation level, 5 dB steps). The apparent latency for the ASSR was estimated as the maximum average cross-correlation between the envelope of the AM sub-band and the recorded EEG and was used to align the EEG signal with the audio signal. The EEG was then split up into sub-epochs of 50 ms length and sorted according to the stimulation level. ASSR was estimated for each level for both scalp- and ear-EEG. <jats:italic>Main results<\/jats:italic>. Significant ASSRs with increasing amplitude as a function of presentation level were recorded from both scalp and ear electrode configurations. <jats:italic>Significance<\/jats:italic>. Utilizing natural sounds in ASSR estimation offers the potential for electrophysiological hearing assessment that are more comfortable and less fatiguing compared to existing ASSR methods. Combined with ear-EEG, this approach may allow convenient hearing threshold estimation in everyday life, utilizing ambient sounds. 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