A method for recording auditory steady-state responses of a person, the method comprising a) providing an acoustic stimulus signal (ac-stim) to an ear of the person, b) recording the auditory steady-state responses (rec n) of the person originating from said acoustic stimulus signal, wherein the acoustic stimulus signal (ac-stim) comprises a speech-like stimulus provided as a combination of a series of frequency-specific stimuli (fs-stim), each having a specified frequency bandwidth, presentation rate, amplitude and amplitude modulation, characterized in that the individual frequency-specific stimuli are independently amplitude modulated by an envelope representing band-specific speech modulations determined from a real speech signal, or an artificial speech signal, which is band-pass filtered into frequency bands corresponding to the stimulus frequency bands, and where the speech envelopes are determined independently for each band, and c) providing that the amplitude modulations are quantized time and/or level, by respectively • Quantizing envelope gains in time to make them constant across each epoch to minimize temporal distortion to the individual stimuli, and • Quantizing the envelope gains to represent specific desired stimulus levels. a) providing an acoustic stimulus signal (ac-stim) to an ear of the person, b) recording the auditory steady-state responses (rec n) of the person originating from said acoustic stimulus signal, wherein the acoustic stimulus signal (ac-stim) comprises a speech-like stimulus provided as a combination of a series of frequency-specific stimuli (fs-stim), each having a specified frequency bandwidth, presentation rate, amplitude and amplitude modulation, characterized in that the individual frequency-specific stimuli are independently amplitude modulated by an envelope representing band-specific speech modulations determined from a real speech signal, or an artificial speech signal, which is band-pass filtered into frequency bands corresponding to the stimulus frequency bands, and where the speech envelopes are determined independently for each band, and wherein the acoustic stimulus signal (ac-stim) comprises a speech-like stimulus provided as a combination of a series of frequency-specific stimuli (fs-stim), each having a specified frequency bandwidth, presentation rate, amplitude and amplitude modulation, characterized in that the individual frequency-specific stimuli are independently amplitude modulated by an envelope representing band-specific speech modulations determined from a real speech signal, or an artificial speech signal, which is band-pass filtered into frequency bands corresponding to the stimulus frequency bands, and where the speech envelopes are determined independently for each band, and c) providing that the amplitude modulations are quantized time and/or level, by respectively • Quantizing envelope gains in time to make them constant across each epoch to minimize temporal distortion to the individual stimuli, and • Quantizing the envelope gains to represent specific desired stimulus levels. • Quantizing envelope gains in time to make them constant across each epoch to minimize temporal distortion to the individual stimuli, and • Quantizing the envelope gains to represent specific desired stimulus levels.