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The role of these structures in speech processing can be investigated by measuring their electrical activity using scalp-mounted electrodes. However, typical analysis methods involve averaging neural responses to many short repetitive stimuli that bear little relevance to daily listening environments. Recently, subcortical responses to more ecologically relevant continuous speech were detected using linear encoding models. These methods estimate the temporal response function (TRF), which is a regression model that minimises the error between the measured neural signal and a predictor derived from the stimulus. Using predictors that model the highly non-linear peripheral auditory system may improve linear TRF estimation accuracy and peak detection. Here, we compare predictors from both simple and complex peripheral auditory models for estimating brainstem TRFs on electroencephalography (EEG) data from 24 participants listening to continuous speech. We also investigate the data length required for estimating subcortical TRFs, and find that around 12 minutes of data is sufficient for clear wave V peaks (&gt;3 dB SNR) to be seen in nearly all participants. Interestingly, predictors derived from simple filterbank-based models of the peripheral auditory system yield TRF wave V peak SNRs that are not significantly different from those estimated using a complex model of the auditory nerve, provided that the nonlinear effects of adaptation in the auditory system are appropriately modelled. Crucially, computing predictors from these simpler models is more than 50 times faster compared to the complex model. 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