# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chieko-asakawa
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:02:49.752Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chieko-asakawa"
name: "Chieko Asakawa"
slug: "chieko-asakawa"
description: "Chieko Asakawa  is a blind Japanese computer scientist, known for her work at IBM Research – Tokyo in accessibility. A Netscape browser plug-in she developed, the IBM Home Page Reader, became the most widely used web-to-speech system available. She is the recipient of numerous industry and government awards."
tagline: "Japanese information engineer (1958-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Field_experiment_in_Nihonbashi%2C_Tokyo_(Feb_2017)_1-19_screenshot.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1958"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.82
  momentum:             1.341070422535211
  historical:           13.31389866666667
  currentAttention:     4.694835680751173
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 197
sources:
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    title: "浅川智惠子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "شياكو أساكاوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chieko_Asakawa"
    title: "Chieko Asakawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chieko_Asakawa"
    title: "Chieko Asakawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chieko_Asakawa"
    title: "Chieko Asakawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chieko_Asakawa"
    title: "Chieko Asakawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chieko_Asakawa"
    title: "Chieko Asakawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chieko_Asakawa"
    title: "Chieko Asakawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chieko_Asakawa"
    title: "Chieko Asakawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chieko_Asakawa"
    title: "Chieko Asakawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B5%85%E5%B7%9D%E6%99%BA%E6%81%B5%E5%AD%90"
    title: "浅川智恵子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chieko_Asakawa"
    title: "Chieko Asakawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A2%D0%B8%D1%8D%D0%BA%D0%BE"
    title: "Асакава, Тиэко"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chieko_Asakawa"
    title: "Chieko Asakawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%96%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%90%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0"
    title: "Тіеко Асакава"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11557098"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump