AI Assistant & Reporting

The AI Assistant is a chat-driven panel that runs native analyses on your measurement data and assembles formatted reports (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) from the results. You describe what you want in natural language; the assistant calls the software's own analysis and rendering tools and returns charts, tables, and documents.

Important: The assistant never invents measured numbers. All values come from the native engines running on your data — the AI only orchestrates the tools and writes the narrative around the real results.

New to the assistant? See Getting the Most out of the AI Assistant for a library of ready-to-use prompts that showcase what it can do.

Opening the assistant

Click the robot icon in the top bar to open the docked AI panel. Type a request and press Enter; use the Stop button to cancel a running turn and Clear to reset the conversation.

Configuring a provider and key

The assistant talks to an OpenAI-compatible chat service. Configure it in Settings → AI Assistant:

Provider — choose DeepSeek, Qwen (Tongyi), Claude, or OpenAI.
API Key — paste the key for that provider. Each provider keeps its own key.
Advanced — optionally override the model name, and set the temperature (lower = more deterministic, default 0.3) and the maximum number of tool iterations per turn (default 20).

Settings are stored locally and take effect the next time you open the AI panel. If no key is set in Settings, the assistant falls back to a DEEPSEEK_API_KEY entry in a .env file placed next to the application.

Provider	Default model	Region
DeepSeek	`deepseek-chat`	Domestic
Qwen (Tongyi)	`qwen-plus`	Domestic
Claude	`claude-opus-4-8`	International
OpenAI	`gpt-4o` (overridable in Advanced)	International

Typical workflow

Ask the assistant to list available files and channels.
Request an analysis (for example, "compute the 1/3-octave spectrum for channel 1 and show it").
The assistant runs the native engine, then posts the chart or a rendered table into the chat.
Add report sections referencing the analysis results.
Ask it to generate the report in the format you need (xlsx / docx / pptx).

Report output

Generated reports embed the software's own charts and the real metric values. When you save a report, the Save dialog opens at the folder configured under Settings → Files & Folders → Reports & exports folder (if set); otherwise it uses the last-used folder.

Data privacy: Chat prompts and the numeric summaries needed for a request are sent to the selected AI provider. Choose a domestic provider (DeepSeek / Qwen) when data must stay in-region.