Machine Translation to Shakespearian English – Towards Data Science

If you've been following the latest developments in deep learning, you've probably come across artistic style transfer. It's a technique to create a new image with the content of image A, in the style of image B. For example, below is the result of style transfer from a Kandinsky painting to a photo of Neil deGrasse Tyson. Deep learning has also had success in transferring verbal style. Given a 1-minute audio clip of someone talking, Lyrebird is able to capture that person's speaking style and make him say anything by mimicking his voice. I was curious to see if style transfer could also apply to the written word. The idea was to dress up English sentences in the styles of various authors, be it florid poetry or gruff prose, while preserving meaning.