def ffmpeg_read(bpayload: bytes, sampling_rate: int) -> np.array:
    """
    Helper function to read an audio file through ffmpeg.
    """
    ar = f"{sampling_rate}"
    ac = "1"
    format_for_conversion = "f32le"
    ffmpeg_command = [
        "ffmpeg",
        "-i",
        "pipe:0",
        "-ac",
        ac,
        "-ar",
        ar,
        "-f",
        format_for_conversion,
        "-hide_banner",
        "-loglevel",
        "quiet",
        "pipe:1",
    ]

    try:
        ffmpeg_process = subprocess.Popen(ffmpeg_command, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    except FileNotFoundError:
        raise ValueError("ffmpeg was not found but is required to load audio files from filename")
    output_stream = ffmpeg_process.communicate(bpayload)
    out_bytes = output_stream[0]

    audio = np.frombuffer(out_bytes, np.float32)
    if audio.shape[0] == 0:
        raise ValueError("Malformed soundfile")
    return audio

    Helper function to read an audio file through ffmpeg.
    
dpkd/transformers/src/transformers/pipelines/audio_classification.py