An Automatic Daisy Production Tool for Thai Language to Support Production of Hand book for Disaster Preparedness in Thailand

Wantanee Phantachat, Namnueng Mitsamarn,
Waragorn Gestubtim, Sirilak Junnatas
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
National Science and Technology Development Agency
Ministry of Science and Technology
Pathumthani, Thailand
Info-reat@nectec.or.th

Abstract

Thailand had faced many disasters around the year. The television news always showed floods, flash floods, landslides, mud slides, wind storm, forest fire and earthquakes in almost every regions of Thailand. Mae Hong son, Prae, Nan and Utaradit provinces are good examples of provinces that were regular hit by the depression and caused mudslides. Many villagers had got direct impacted from these disaster, some died, some injured, some were homeless. For disability concerned, we talked to head of villages regarding the evacuate plan for people with disability (pwd) in the village. He said he didn't know how to help them because it happened instantly. Everyone had to run for their lives. With respect to the information, we realize that to train pwd to learn how to prepare themselves for any disaster is very important. Due to disability concerned, the training guides should be prepared to support all types of pwd. In this paper we propose the production tool that can produce the handbooks for disaster preparedness in Thai language automatically. We use ready to made technology and try to integrate into one program that can produce the handbook in daisy format. The "Save as Daisy " program from Microsoft is our crucial main program combines with NECTEC'speech syntheses program , NECTEC's optical character recognition program, NECTEC Thai word segmentation engines, NECTEC automatic Thai typing style checking engines, and Thai styles sheet are integrated into one program. In this paper is also presented how to produce easy Daisy handbook for disaster preparedness.