diff --git a/examples/main/main.cpp b/examples/main/main.cpp
index 8dd31d0..4fbc3f6 100644
--- a/examples/main/main.cpp
+++ b/examples/main/main.cpp
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ struct whisper_params {
     int32_t offset_t_ms  =  0;
     int32_t offset_n     =  0;
     int32_t duration_ms  =  0;
+    int32_t progress_step =  5;
     int32_t max_context  = -1;
     int32_t max_len      =  0;
     int32_t best_of      =  2;
@@ -218,6 +219,7 @@ struct whisper_print_user_data {
     const whisper_params * params;
 
     const std::vector<std::vector<float>> * pcmf32s;
+    int progress_prev;
 };
 
 std::string estimate_diarization_speaker(std::vector<std::vector<float>> pcmf32s, int64_t t0, int64_t t1, bool id_only = false) {
@@ -252,6 +254,14 @@ std::string estimate_diarization_speaker(std::vector<std::vector<float>> pcmf32s
 
     return speaker;
 }
+void whisper_print_progress_callback(struct whisper_context * ctx, struct whisper_state * /*state*/, int progress, void * user_data) {
+    int progress_step = ((whisper_print_user_data *) user_data)->params->progress_step;
+    int * progress_prev  = &(((whisper_print_user_data *) user_data)->progress_prev);
+    if (progress >= *progress_prev + progress_step) {
+        *progress_prev += progress_step;
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s: progress = %3d%%\n", __func__, progress);
+    }
+}
 
 void whisper_print_segment_callback(struct whisper_context * ctx, struct whisper_state * /*state*/, int n_new, void * user_data) {
     const auto & params  = *((whisper_print_user_data *) user_data)->params;
@@ -895,7 +905,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
             wparams.entropy_thold    = params.entropy_thold;
             wparams.logprob_thold    = params.logprob_thold;
 
-            whisper_print_user_data user_data = { &params, &pcmf32s };
+            whisper_print_user_data user_data = { &params, &pcmf32s, 0 };
 
             // this callback is called on each new segment
             if (!wparams.print_realtime) {
@@ -903,6 +913,11 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
                 wparams.new_segment_callback_user_data = &user_data;
             }
 
+            if (wparams.print_progress) {
+                wparams.progress_callback           = whisper_print_progress_callback;
+                wparams.progress_callback_user_data = &user_data;
+            }
+
             // example for abort mechanism
             // in this example, we do not abort the processing, but we could if the flag is set to true
             // the callback is called before every encoder run - if it returns false, the processing is aborted
diff --git a/whisper.cpp b/whisper.cpp
index 3818745..ab734fe 100644
--- a/whisper.cpp
+++ b/whisper.cpp
@@ -4163,9 +4163,6 @@ int whisper_full_with_state(
         }
     }
 
-    int progress_prev = 0;
-    int progress_step = 5;
-
     int seek = seek_start;
 
     std::vector<whisper_token> prompt;
@@ -4193,15 +4190,9 @@ int whisper_full_with_state(
     // main loop
     while (true) {
         const int progress_cur = (100*(seek - seek_start))/(seek_end - seek_start);
-        while (progress_cur >= progress_prev + progress_step) {
-            progress_prev += progress_step;
-            if (params.print_progress) {
-                fprintf(stderr, "%s: progress = %3d%%\n", __func__, progress_prev);
-            }
-        }
         if (params.progress_callback) {
             params.progress_callback(
-                ctx, ctx->state, progress_prev, params.progress_callback_user_data);
+                ctx, ctx->state, progress_cur, params.progress_callback_user_data);
         }
 
         // of only 1 second left, then stop