# Text

The user text for their part of the conversation.

At the beginning of a conversation, you can send the Converse action without the `Text` parameter. In this case, Answer Server runs the conversation task that has the initial state trigger (for example, a default greeting). If you do not have a configured task with the initial state trigger, Answer Server runs the conversation task that has the empty state trigger.

For more information about conversation triggers, refer to the Answer Server Administration Guide.

After the start of the conversation, you provide the user input text in the `Text` parameter, and the Converse action response gives the reply from your conversation tasks. You continue a conversation by sending further Converse actions with the same value in SessionID.

In some cases, the Converse action calls out to the Ask action to ask a question. The Ask response can include additional information to allow the user to disambiguate between multiple possible answers. In this case, Answer Server returns the possible answers in the Converse action response, along with the disambiguation information. At this point, you can use the special string `ANSWER_NUMBER_N` to return a particular answer from the list, where `N` is the number of the answer (starting from 0).

Actions: | Converse
Type: | String
Default: |
Example: | `Text=I would like to book a holiday`
See Also: | SessionID

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