Example decoded sentences for one block of copy typing. In the rightmost columns, errors are highlighted in red (extra spaces were denoted with a red square, and omitted letters were indicated with a strikethrough). Note that our language model substitutes “epidermal” for “epidural”, since “epidural” is out of vocabulary. The mean characters per minute for this block was 86.47 and the character error rates were 4.18% (real-time output) and 1.22% (language model). Sentence prompts were taken from the BNC corpus according to a random selection process (see Supplementary Methods for details).