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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ libcw is an application framework for developming real-time interactive applicat
 
 Some of libcw's features are:
 
-- Synchronous and asynchronous interfaces to many common IO devices including:
+- Real-time, low-latency, synchronous and asynchronous interfaces to many common IO devices including:
   + Audio
   + MIDI
   + Serial
@@ -13,13 +13,15 @@ Some of libcw's features are:
  
 - Built-in dataflow framework for describing real-time audio and DSP programs.
 
-- GUI development API and collection of predefined widgets for developing websocket based user interfaces.
+- A GUI development API and collection of predefined widgets for creating websocket based user interfaces.
 
-- All elements of the framework are easily configurable based on extended JSON files.
+- Most elements of the framework are configurable based on configuration files which use an extended JSON syntax.
+
+- The library has minimal dependencies.  The only external dependencies are `libasound`, `libwebsockets` and `libfftw`.
+
+- The library implements a large collection of pre-built audio signal processing algorithms.
 
-- Minimal dependencies.  The only external dependencies are `libasound`, `libwebsockets` and `libfftw`.
 
-- A large collection of pre-built audio signal processing algorithms