Stopping Swiperjs mid-transition

Question

I would like to know a way to stop the swiperjs transition at the exact spot while it's transitioning.
What I currently have is a continuous autoplay loop combined with transition-timing-function : linear; on the swiper wrapper. This makes it look like it's constantly sliding one way in a fluent motion. On the background it is however always transitioning from slide to slide (and the transition-timing property makes it look fluent).
What I would like to implement is when I hover the swiper, it stops at the exact position and when I leave the mouse it starts again.
I have already implemented a fix to make it stop at the exact position using this link. When hovering out though, it moves too fast to the next translate3d point. This is because when starting it again, it takes the stopped position as the starting position of the transition, which is of different length so it moves at a different speed.
I've already gone as far as implementing an interval with the same speed count as the slider property to determine the progress of the animation from point to point so to from there be able to determine the transition-duration. For example when the slide transition is half way (in my case 3.5 seconds later as the speed I set is 7 seconds), I set the transition duration to 3500 on the swiper wrapper so that it moves at the same speed to the next point when hovering out. This however is very buggy and relies on a continuous counter that starts upon loading the page (in mounted()), which isn't correct anymore after hovering a few times.

It's maybe a bit of a complex story but I would like to know if there are other ways of implementing this functionality, or how to somehow be able to know the current progression of the transition.
I'm building this in Nuxt 3 (vue.js framework) using the vue swiperjs library.
Thanks in advance