from datasets import load_dataset, Audio
dataset = load_dataset("PolyAI/minds14", "en-US", split="train")
dataset = dataset.cast_column("audio", Audio(sampling_rate=16000))
sampling_rate = dataset.features["audio"].sampling_rate
audio_file = dataset[0]["audio"]["path"]

The simplest way to try out your finetuned model for inference is to use it in a [pipeline].