diff --git a/whisperx/asr.py b/whisperx/asr.py
index 67b5b4c..623cf72 100644
--- a/whisperx/asr.py
+++ b/whisperx/asr.py
@@ -258,7 +258,10 @@ class FasterWhisperPipeline(Pipeline):
 
         vad_segments = self.vad_model({"waveform": torch.from_numpy(audio).unsqueeze(0), "sample_rate": SAMPLE_RATE})
         vad_segments = merge_chunks(vad_segments, 30)
-        if self.preset_language is None:
+        if self.preset_language is None or self.preset_language != language:
+            if self.preset_language is not None and language is not None and self.preset_language != language:
+                print(f"Preset language '{self.preset_language}' is different from the language {language} passed to the transcribe method.")
+                print(f"Overriding preset language with {language}.")
             language = language or self.detect_language(audio)
             task = task or "transcribe"
             self.tokenizer = faster_whisper.tokenizer.Tokenizer(self.model.hf_tokenizer,