Glossary

AI Avatar Glossary

Plain-language definitions of the terms you meet when evaluating real-time AI Avatars and video agents, from lip sync and latency to data residency and the EU AI Act.

All terms

AI avatar pilot

A limited test on one use case before rollout.

AI avatar pricing

Usually per minute, with limits on concurrent sessions.

Multilingual AI avatar

Holds live conversations in several languages.

Conversation analytics

Turns agent conversations into measurable data.

Function calling

Lets an agent take actions in other systems mid-conversation.

AI governance

The policies and controls for using AI safely and lawfully.

Sovereign AI

AI you can run and control under your own laws.

Uptime and SLA

Availability, and the contract that commits to it.

Sub-processor

A third party a vendor uses to process your data.

Data processing agreement (DPA)

The GDPR contract with a vendor that processes your data.

AI avatar security

How a vendor protects conversation data, likeness and access.

AI avatar platform

Software to create, run and embed AI Avatars.

Enterprise AI avatar

A real-time Avatar built for security, compliance and scale.

AI customer support agent

Answers customers' questions with a face and a voice.

AI interviewer

Runs structured candidate interviews over video.

AI sales agent (AI SDR)

Qualifies leads and runs demos face to face.

SOC 2

An independent audit of a company's security controls.

EU AI Act

The EU law regulating AI systems by risk level.

GDPR

The EU rules for processing personal data.

Data residency

Where data must be stored and processed.

Self-hosted AI avatar

An Avatar you host and operate yourself.

Private cloud deployment

The model runs inside your own cloud account.

On-premise deployment

The Avatar model runs in your own data centre.

Avatar API

An API that streams a real-time Avatar into your product.

Concurrency

How many live conversations run at the same time.

Latency

The delay between a person finishing and the Avatar replying.

Knowledge base

The documents an agent answers from.

Bring your own LLM

Your language model decides what the Avatar says.

Speech-to-Video (S2V)

Turns audio into synchronised video of a person speaking.

Managed agent

A complete video agent hosted by Beyond Presence.

AI voice agent

A voice-only AI agent; an Avatar adds the face.

AI avatar agent

A video agent that answers from your knowledge and takes actions.

Conversational AI

AI that understands and answers in natural language.

Conversational AI avatar

An Avatar connected to an LLM for live back-and-forth.

Video agent

An AI agent that talks face to face over video.

Consent-based avatar

Created only with the recorded consent of the person shown.

Custom avatar

An Avatar of a real person, recorded with consent.

Lip sync

How closely mouth movement matches the words spoken.

Pre-rendered AI video

Avatar video made in advance from a script.

Digital human

A lifelike AI character people can talk to.

Interactive avatar

An Avatar people talk with, not just watch.

Real-time avatar

Rendered live, about 100 ms after the audio arrives.

AI Avatar

A digital human with a realistic face, voice and expressions.

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