diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 74aef1e..38c1b33 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ def build_extension(self, ext: CMakeExtension) -> None:
 # logic and declaration, and simpler if you include description/version in a file.
 setup(
     name="pywhispercpp",
-    version="1.0.6",
+    version="1.0.7",
     author="abdeladim-s",
     description="Python bindings for whisper.cpp",
     long_description=long_description,
diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cpp
index 4738ae9..ec95bf3 100644
--- a/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/main.cpp
@@ -486,7 +486,10 @@ PYBIND11_MODULE(_pywhispercpp, m) {
         .def_readwrite("audio_ctx", &whisper_full_params::audio_ctx)
         .def_readwrite("prompt_tokens", &whisper_full_params::prompt_tokens)
         .def_readwrite("prompt_n_tokens", &whisper_full_params::prompt_n_tokens)
-        .def_readwrite("language", &whisper_full_params::language)
+        .def_property("language", [](whisper_full_params &self) {return py::str(self.language);},
+                                 [](whisper_full_params &self, const char *new_c) {char* c = (char *)malloc(sizeof(new_c));
+                                                                                    strcpy(c, new_c); self.language = c;})
+
         .def_readwrite("suppress_blank", &whisper_full_params::suppress_blank)
         .def_readwrite("suppress_non_speech_tokens", &whisper_full_params::suppress_non_speech_tokens)
         .def_readwrite("temperature", &whisper_full_params::temperature)