diff --git a/whisperx/asr.py b/whisperx/asr.py
index 8b1e5ca..bef3cd8 100644
--- a/whisperx/asr.py
+++ b/whisperx/asr.py
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ class FasterWhisperPipeline(Pipeline):
         return final_iterator
 
     def transcribe(
-        self, audio: Union[str, np.ndarray], batch_size=None, num_workers=0, language=None, task=None, print_progress = False
+        self, audio: Union[str, np.ndarray], batch_size=None, num_workers=0, language=None, task=None, print_progress = False, combined_progress=False
     ) -> TranscriptionResult:
         if isinstance(audio, str):
             audio = load_audio(audio)
@@ -288,7 +288,8 @@ class FasterWhisperPipeline(Pipeline):
         total_segments = len(vad_segments)
         for idx, out in enumerate(self.__call__(data(audio, vad_segments), batch_size=batch_size, num_workers=num_workers)):
             if print_progress:
-                percent_complete = ((idx + 1) / total_segments) * 100
+                base_progress = ((idx + 1) / total_segments) * 100
+                percent_complete = base_progress / 2 if combined_progress else base_progress
                 print(f"Progress: {percent_complete:.2f}%...")
             text = out['text']
             if batch_size in [0, 1, None]: