Editing Polyphonic HMI

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{{Infobox company
| name = Polyphonic HMI
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| industry = Music Analysis
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* Grupo AIA
* [[Mike McCready (music entrepreneur)|Mike McCready]]}}
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| hq_location_city = [[Barcelona]]
| hq_location_country = [[Spain]] 
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| products = [[Hit Song Science]]
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'''Polyphonic HMI''' is a music analysis company jointly founded in Barcelona, Spain by Mike McCready and an artificial intelligence firm called Grupo AIA. Its principal product is called "Hit Song Science" (HSS) which uses various [[statistics|statistical]] and [[signal processing]] techniques to help record companies predict whether a particular song will have commercial success.<ref>[http://mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=48160 Major Music Labels Use Artificial Intelligence To Help Determine "Hitability" Of Music]. ''MI2N''. 02-25-2003. Accessed on: 19-03-2009.</ref>

The software correctly predicted the success of Norah Jones' debut album ''[[Come Away with Me]]'' months before it topped the charts, contradicting skeptical studio executives.<ref>[http://www.studio360.org/yore/commentary011004.html Studio 360 commentary] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007204839/http://www.studio360.org/yore/commentary011004.html |date=2008-10-07 }}. 01-10-2004. Accessed on: 19-03-2009.</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*{{cite book |last1=Vernallis |first1=Carol |last2=Herzog |first2=Amy |last3=Richardson |first3=John |title=The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-025817-7 |language=en}}

==External links==
* Article in [http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3208,36-397272,0.html Le Monde] about Polyphonic HMI
* [http://ismir2008.ismir.net/papers/ISMIR2008_133.pdf Hit Song Science Is Not Yet a Science] - a study that appeared in ISMIR 2008.

[[Category:Music companies of Spain]]
[[Category:Mass media companies of Spain]]
[[Category:Mass media in Barcelona]]