diff --git a/samples/python/audio_spectrogram.py b/samples/python/audio_spectrogram.py
index f211bbb584..cc156888d4 100644
--- a/samples/python/audio_spectrogram.py
+++ b/samples/python/audio_spectrogram.py
@@ -330,6 +330,10 @@ class AudioDrawing:
         """
 
         time_step = self.windLen - self.overlap
+        if time_step <= 0:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Invalid STFT parameters: overlap must be smaller than window length"
+            )
         stft = []
 
         if self.windowType == "Hann":
@@ -801,4 +805,4 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
 
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
-    AudioDrawing(args).Draw()
+    AudioDrawing(args).Draw()
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