diff --git a/components/esp_driver_i2s/i2s_common.c b/components/esp_driver_i2s/i2s_common.c
index 110b89b60e..aa0321f0f6 100644
--- a/components/esp_driver_i2s/i2s_common.c
+++ b/components/esp_driver_i2s/i2s_common.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015-2023 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015-2024 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
  *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
  */
@@ -972,6 +972,7 @@ found:
     chan_info->dir = handle->dir;
     chan_info->role = handle->role;
     chan_info->mode = handle->mode;
+    chan_info->total_dma_buf_size = handle->state >= I2S_CHAN_STATE_READY ? handle->dma.desc_num * handle->dma.buf_size : 0;
     if (handle->controller->full_duplex) {
         if (handle->dir == I2S_DIR_TX) {
             chan_info->pair_chan = handle->controller->rx_chan;
diff --git a/components/esp_driver_i2s/include/driver/i2s_common.h b/components/esp_driver_i2s/include/driver/i2s_common.h
index a2711c2512..a50c5d8446 100644
--- a/components/esp_driver_i2s/include/driver/i2s_common.h
+++ b/components/esp_driver_i2s/include/driver/i2s_common.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015-2023 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015-2024 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
  *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
  */
@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ typedef struct {
     i2s_dir_t           dir;                /*!< I2S channel direction */
     i2s_comm_mode_t     mode;               /*!< I2S channel communication mode */
     i2s_chan_handle_t   pair_chan;          /*!< I2S pair channel handle in duplex mode, always NULL in simplex mode */
+    uint32_t            total_dma_buf_size; /*!< Total size of all the allocated DMA buffers
+                                             *   - 0 if the channel has not been initialized
+                                             *   - non-zero if the channel has been initialized
+                                             */
 } i2s_chan_info_t;
 
 /**