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# Configure Variable Parameters

To improve the usability of tasks, you can change some of the configuration parameters into action parameters that you specify when you send an action. To do this, set the task configuration parameters to built-in variable values.

These variables can either:

- Create action parameters that allow you to specify the configuration parameter value when you run the task
- Refer similar configuration parameters to the one configuration parameter where a standard value is set

Variable parameters give you complete flexibility with modules. For example, if you have a single task that requires two `stt` modules (`stt` and `stt1`), you can ensure that each `stt` module uses different action parameters in the `AddTask` action.

Another example of how you might use variable values is if you want to create temporary files. You can use the `$token` built-in variable. Because this is the same as the unique token ID returned for each task, you can also use it as a file name associated with that task for temporary file purposes.

NOTE:

You must use UTF-8 to encode action parameters stored on disk, for example in the configuration file.

## Generate Output File Names

You can use the `$outfile` built-in variable if you want IDOL Speech Server to automatically generate a unique file name for an output file, instead of specifying the file name yourself. For example, the default configuration for the `[wout]` module for the `SpeechToText` task is shown below:

    [wout]
    format = ctm
    output = $params.out = $outfile
    outputLabel = out

If you specify an output file name as part of the action (for example, `Out=test.ctm`), IDOL Speech Server uses that name. If you do not specify a file name in the action, IDOL Speech Server automatically generates a name based on a combination of the task token, the name of the module that generates the output file, and the name of the parameter used to specify the output file name. For example, in the case above, the file name might be `tmp_MTkyLjE2OC45NS4yNDox_wout_output`.

IDOL Speech Server writes the file to the standard directory for the output type (`TempDir`, `SpeakerIDDir`, and so on).

You can send a `GetStatus` action with the task token to determine the names of the output files generated by a task. The output files are listed in the response.

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