diff --git a/docs/source/soundswallower.js.rst b/docs/source/soundswallower.js.rst
index 4d5c3a9..1fc0541 100644
--- a/docs/source/soundswallower.js.rst
+++ b/docs/source/soundswallower.js.rst
@@ -25,26 +25,6 @@ returns in the usual manner.  If this means nothing to you, please
 consult
 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/JavaScript/Asynchronous.
 
-By default, a narrow-bandwidth English acoustic model is loaded and
-made available.  If you want to use a different one, just put it where
-your web server can find it, then pass the relative URL to the
-directory containing the model files using the `hmm` configuration
-parameter and the URL of the dictionary using the `dict` parameter.
-Here is an example, presuming that you have downloaded and unpacked
-the Brazilian Portuguese model and dictionary from
-https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx/files/Acoustic%20and%20Language%20Models/Portuguese/
-and placed them under ``/model`` in your web server root:
-
-.. code-block:: javascript
-
-    import createModule from "soundswallower";
-    // Avoid loading the default model
-    const soundswallower = { defaultModel: null };
-    await createModule(soundswallower);
-    const decoder = new soundswallower.Decoder({hmm: "/model/cmusphinx-pt-br-5.2",
-                                      dict: "/model/br-pt.dic"});
-    await decoder.initialize();
-
 For the moment, to use SoundSwallower with Webpack, an incantation is
 required in your `webpack.config.js`.  Sorry, I don't make the rules:
 
diff --git a/js/README.md b/js/README.md
index 475f0cc..a2e8c77 100644
--- a/js/README.md
+++ b/js/README.md
@@ -87,9 +87,12 @@ import createModule from "soundswallower"; // or whatever name you like
 const soundswallower = await createModule();
 ```
 
-Because it needs access to the compiled WebAssembly code, all of the actual API is
-contained within this object that you get back from `createModule`. Now you can
-try to initialize a recognizer and recognize some speech.
+Because it needs access to the compiled WebAssembly code, all of the actual API
+is contained within this object that you get back from `createModule`. Now you
+can try to initialize a recognizer and recognize some speech. This is
+asynchronous, because it does a bunch of file loading and such, but the rest of
+the API isn't, because Javascript promises are not actually coroutines and thus
+will block your program even if they appear to be "asynchronous".
 
 ```js
 let decoder = new soundswallower.Decoder({
@@ -135,8 +138,7 @@ decoder.stop();
 ```
 
 The text result can be obtained with `get_text()` or in a more detailed format
-with time alignments using `get_alignment()`. These are not asynchronous
-methods, as they do not depend on or change the state of the decoder:
+with time alignments using `get_alignment()`.
 
 ```js
 console.log(decoder.get_text());