diff --git a/whisper/transcribe.py b/whisper/transcribe.py
index 82a705649..8f34b0ef3 100644
--- a/whisper/transcribe.py
+++ b/whisper/transcribe.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 from .audio import SAMPLE_RATE, N_FRAMES, HOP_LENGTH, pad_or_trim, log_mel_spectrogram
 from .decoding import DecodingOptions, DecodingResult
 from .tokenizer import LANGUAGES, TO_LANGUAGE_CODE, get_tokenizer
-from .utils import exact_div, format_timestamp, optional_int, optional_float, str2bool, write_vtt, write_srt
+from .utils import exact_div, format_timestamp, optional_int, optional_float, str2bool, write_txt, write_vtt, write_srt
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from .model import Whisper
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ def cli():
 
         # save TXT
         with open(os.path.join(output_dir, audio_basename + ".txt"), "w", encoding="utf-8") as txt:
-            print(result["text"], file=txt)
+            write_txt(result["segments"], file=txt)
 
         # save VTT
         with open(os.path.join(output_dir, audio_basename + ".vtt"), "w", encoding="utf-8") as vtt:
diff --git a/whisper/utils.py b/whisper/utils.py
index c8f9c0dbe..b63ade7f7 100644
--- a/whisper/utils.py
+++ b/whisper/utils.py
@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ def format_timestamp(seconds: float, always_include_hours: bool = False):
     return f"{hours_marker}{minutes:02d}:{seconds:02d}.{milliseconds:03d}"
 
 
+def write_txt(transcript: Iterator[dict], file: TextIO):
+    for segment in transcript:
+        print(segment['text'].strip(), file=file, flush=True)
+
+
 def write_vtt(transcript: Iterator[dict], file: TextIO):
     print("WEBVTT\n", file=file)
     for segment in transcript: