diff --git a/whisper/transcribe.py b/whisper/transcribe.py
index 0a4cc3623..083a26026 100644
--- a/whisper/transcribe.py
+++ b/whisper/transcribe.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import os
 import traceback
 import warnings
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, List, Optional, Tuple, Union, Callable
 
 import numpy as np
 import torch
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ def transcribe(
     append_punctuations: str = "\"'.。,，!！?？:：”)]}、",
     clip_timestamps: Union[str, List[float]] = "0",
     hallucination_silence_threshold: Optional[float] = None,
+    callback: Optional[Callable[[int, int, float], None]] = None,
     **decode_options,
 ):
     """
@@ -119,6 +120,10 @@ def transcribe(
         When word_timestamps is True, skip silent periods longer than this threshold (in seconds)
         when a possible hallucination is detected
 
+    callback: Optional[Callable[int, int, float]] = None,
+        After each step in the transcription process, call the callback function with
+        the arguments current posistion, total frames, estimated time to finish in seconds
+        
     Returns
     -------
     A dictionary containing the resulting text ("text") and segment-level details ("segments"), and
@@ -504,8 +509,17 @@ def next_words_segment(segments: List[dict]) -> Optional[dict]:
                 # do not feed the prompt tokens if a high temperature was used
                 prompt_reset_since = len(all_tokens)
 
+            total_position = min(content_frames, seek)
+            increase = total_position - previous_seek
+
+            if callback is not None:
+                rate = pbar.format_dict["rate"]
+                remaining = (pbar.total - pbar.n) / rate if rate and pbar.total else 0
+
+                callback(total_position, content_frames, remaining)
+
             # update progress bar
-            pbar.update(min(content_frames, seek) - previous_seek)
+            pbar.update(increase)
 
     return dict(
         text=tokenizer.decode(all_tokens[len(initial_prompt_tokens) :]),