Changing first letter of piped text to lowercase

I want to pipe the selection from a standard likert scale question like the one below into a follow-up open ended question.

1. Very unlikely
2. Somewhat unlikely
3. Neither likely nor unlikely
4. Somewhat likely
5. Very likely

I want to change the first letter of the piped selection so that it is lower case.

The piping instruction I currently have in the open ended question is:
Why are you ${q://QID26/ChoiceGroup/SelectedChoices} to consider using... 

I tried using the tips noted in the thread below but it isn’t working for me.