diff --git a/realbook/callbacks/spectrogram_visualization.py b/realbook/callbacks/spectrogram_visualization.py
index 405538a..d3037a1 100644
--- a/realbook/callbacks/spectrogram_visualization.py
+++ b/realbook/callbacks/spectrogram_visualization.py
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ class SpectrogramVisualizationCallback(tf.keras.callbacks.Callback):
      - transpose: whether to transpose the spectrogram before plotting it.
      - add_colorbar: whether to add a colorbar to the spectrogram plot.
      - Any remaining keyword arguments are passed through to librosa.display.specshow.
+        If `hop_length` is not set, it is inferred.
     """
 
     def __init__(
@@ -135,11 +136,13 @@ def on_train_begin(self, logs: Any = None) -> None:
                         # Ignore the single channel dimension, if it exists.
                         spectrograms = spectrograms[:, :, :, 0]
 
-                    # We can infer the hop length, as we know the input audio length
-                    # and sample rate used in the spectrogram
-                    length_in_samples = data.shape[-1]
-                    length_in_frames = spectrograms.shape[-2]
-                    hop_length = int(tf.math.ceil(length_in_samples / length_in_frames))
+                    if "hop_length" not in self.specshow_arguments:
+                        # We can infer the hop length, as we know the input audio length
+                        # and sample rate used in the spectrogram
+                        length_in_samples = data.shape[-1]
+                        length_in_frames = spectrograms.shape[-2] if self.transpose else spectrograms.shape[-1]
+                        hop_length = int(tf.math.ceil(length_in_samples / length_in_frames))
+                        self.specshow_arguments["hop_length"] = hop_length
 
                     figs = []
                     for spectrogram in spectrograms:
@@ -157,7 +160,6 @@ def on_train_begin(self, logs: Any = None) -> None:
                         img = librosa.display.specshow(
                             spectrogram,
                             sr=self.sample_rate_hz,
-                            hop_length=hop_length,
                             ax=ax,
                             **self.specshow_arguments,
                         )
diff --git a/tests/callbacks/test_spectrogram_visualization.py b/tests/callbacks/test_spectrogram_visualization.py
index 6e7ac9c..2ceab77 100644
--- a/tests/callbacks/test_spectrogram_visualization.py
+++ b/tests/callbacks/test_spectrogram_visualization.py
@@ -350,3 +350,36 @@ def test_enable_colorbar() -> None:
 
     model.fit(fake_data, callbacks=[cb])
     assert True
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(
+    SpectrogramVisualizationCallback is None,
+    reason="SpectrogramVisualizationCallback import fails on this platform",
+)
+def test_set_hop_length() -> None:
+    fake_data = tf.data.Dataset.zip(
+        (
+            tf.data.Dataset.from_tensor_slices([TEST_AUDIO]),
+            tf.data.Dataset.from_tensor_slices([1]),
+        )
+    ).batch(1)
+
+    model = tf.keras.Sequential(
+        [
+            tf.keras.Input(shape=(None,)),
+            Spectrogram(),
+            tf.keras.layers.Dense(1),
+        ]
+    )
+    model.compile(loss="binary_crossentropy")
+
+    cb = SpectrogramVisualizationCallback(
+        FakeWriter(),
+        fake_data,
+        sample_rate=DEFAULT_SAMPLE_RATE,
+        raise_on_error=True,
+        hop_length=1024,
+    )
+
+    model.fit(fake_data, callbacks=[cb])
+    assert True