diff --git a/bark.cpp b/bark.cpp
index 03053ef..b0e4f3e 100644
--- a/bark.cpp
+++ b/bark.cpp
@@ -159,13 +159,13 @@ struct bark_context {
 
 struct bark_progress {
     float current = 0.0f;
-    const char * func = NULL;
+    const char * func;
 
-    bark_progress() {}
+    bark_progress(const char * func): func(func) {}
 
     void callback(float progress) {
         float percentage = progress * 100;
-        if (percentage == 0.0f && func != NULL) {
+        if (percentage == 0.0f) {
             fprintf(stderr, "%s: ", func);
         }
         while (percentage > current) {
@@ -1707,8 +1707,7 @@ void bark_forward_text_encoder(struct bark_context * ctx, int n_threads) {
 
     bark_sequence out;
 
-    bark_progress progress;
-    progress.func = __func__;
+    bark_progress progress( __func__);
 
     gpt_model * model = &ctx->model.text_model;
 
@@ -1768,8 +1767,7 @@ void bark_forward_coarse_encoder(struct bark_context * ctx, int n_threads) {
     bark_codes out_coarse;
     bark_sequence out;
 
-    bark_progress progress;
-    progress.func = __func__;
+    bark_progress progress(__func__);
 
     int max_coarse_history = ctx->max_coarse_history;
     int sliding_window_size = ctx->sliding_window_size;
@@ -1880,9 +1878,11 @@ void bark_forward_coarse_encoder(struct bark_context * ctx, int n_threads) {
 }
 
 void bark_forward_fine_encoder(struct bark_context * ctx, int n_threads) {
-    // input shape: (N, n_codes)
+    // input shape: [N, n_codes]
     const int64_t t_main_start_us = ggml_time_us();
 
+    bark_progress progress(__func__);
+
     bark_codes input = ctx->coarse_tokens;
 
     float temp = ctx->fine_temp;
@@ -1892,9 +1892,6 @@ void bark_forward_fine_encoder(struct bark_context * ctx, int n_threads) {
 
     gpt_model * model = &ctx->model.fine_model;
 
-    bark_progress progress;
-    progress.func = __func__;
-
     int n_coarse          = input[0].size();
     int original_seq_len  = input.size();
     int n_remove_from_end = 0;