diff --git a/faster_whisper/transcribe.py b/faster_whisper/transcribe.py
index 593d1be..ba55adc 100644
--- a/faster_whisper/transcribe.py
+++ b/faster_whisper/transcribe.py
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ class TranscriptionOptions(NamedTuple):
     best_of: int
     patience: float
     length_penalty: float
+    repetition_penalty: float
     log_prob_threshold: Optional[float]
     no_speech_threshold: Optional[float]
     compression_ratio_threshold: Optional[float]
@@ -160,6 +161,7 @@ class WhisperModel:
         best_of: int = 5,
         patience: float = 1,
         length_penalty: float = 1,
+        repetition_penalty: float = 1,
         temperature: Union[float, List[float], Tuple[float, ...]] = [
             0.0,
             0.2,
@@ -197,6 +199,8 @@ class WhisperModel:
           best_of: Number of candidates when sampling with non-zero temperature.
           patience: Beam search patience factor.
           length_penalty: Exponential length penalty constant.
+          repetition_penalty: Penalty applied to the score of previously generated tokens
+            (set > 1 to penalize).
           temperature: Temperature for sampling. It can be a tuple of temperatures,
             which will be successively used upon failures according to either
             `compression_ratio_threshold` or `log_prob_threshold`.
@@ -319,6 +323,7 @@ class WhisperModel:
             best_of=best_of,
             patience=patience,
             length_penalty=length_penalty,
+            repetition_penalty=repetition_penalty,
             log_prob_threshold=log_prob_threshold,
             no_speech_threshold=no_speech_threshold,
             compression_ratio_threshold=compression_ratio_threshold,
@@ -620,6 +625,7 @@ class WhisperModel:
                 encoder_output,
                 [prompt],
                 length_penalty=options.length_penalty,
+                repetition_penalty=options.repetition_penalty,
                 max_length=self.max_length,
                 return_scores=True,
                 return_no_speech_prob=True,