IntenseDebate Comments vs Sentifyd Avatar

IntenseDebate Comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog or website. Custom integration with your WordPress admin panel makes moderation a piece of cake. Comment threading, reply-by-email, user accounts and reputations, comment voting, along with Twitter and friendfeed integrations enrich your readers’ experience and make more of the internet aware of your blog and comments which drives traffic to you! Full comment and account data sync between Intense Debate and WordPress ensures that you will always have your comments stored locally on your own server. Note: IntenseDebate is currently being maintained, but not actively developed.

This plugin allows you to quickly and easily add a Sentifyd AI-powered 3D avatar to your WordPress website. Simply install the plugin, enter your avatar API key and Avatar ID on the settings page, choose the Voice mode you want, and the Sentifyd avatar web component will be installed on your site. The admin page allows you to configure your avatar API Key, Avatar ID, Voice mode, branding, and other important attributes for the avatar. You can also restrict the avatar to logged-in users only. However, you need to sign up to sentifyd.io to create your avatar and train it. If you choose Real-time voice mode, the avatar you created in sentifyd.io must also be configured for realtime voice mode. Sentifyd.io empowers you to deploy intelligent, real-time 3D AI agents—fully animated avatars capable of natural, voice-driven conversations. These interactive 3D agents go beyond traditional chatbots by combining Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), dynamic motion, and customizable tool integration. With Sentifyd, your 3D AI agents can: Understand and respond to user input in real time using natural voice and language. Express themselves through lifelike gestures, movement, and tone for an immersive user experience. Access and reason over your own content—such as manuals, FAQs, or internal documents—while maintaining strict privacy and security protocols. Connect with powerful tools like MCP servers and more, enabling task execution and contextual awareness. These agents can be easily embedded into your website or application, offering users a compelling, intelligent interface that feels truly alive. Get Started for Free Sign up and get up to 500 conversation minutes (Free Trial) Buy Conversation Minutes External Services This plugin relies on external third-party services provided by Sentifyd to function. By using this plugin, you acknowledge and agree to the use of these services. Sentifyd Frontend Service (frontend.sentifyd.io) What it does: Provides the JavaScript web component library that powers the 3D AI avatar interface displayed on your website. Data sent and received: The JavaScript file is loaded from https://frontend.sentifyd.io/sentifyd-bot/main.js in Standard voice mode or https://frontend.sentifyd.io/sentifyd-realtime/v1/main.js in Real-time voice mode whenever a page with the avatar is viewed. Service provider: Sentifyd.io Terms of Service | Privacy Policy Sentifyd Backend Service (serve.sentifyd.io) What it does: Handles avatar authentication, conversation processing, natural language understanding, voice synthesis, and AI-powered responses. Data sent and received: When the avatar widget initializes, avatar initialization data is received from the server. During each user interaction with the avatar, users input is sent to the server, and AI responses are received. Conversation data is processed in real-time. Session tokens are short-lived (typically expire within 1 hour). Conversation logs are retained for a short period (1 hour) to easily resume conversations. Service provider: Sentifyd.io Terms of Service | Privacy Policy Azure Speech Services (Microsoft Azure) What it does: Provides speech-to-text (STT) functionality, converting user voice input into text that the avatar can process. The avatar widget connects directly to Azure Speech Services from the user’s browser. Data sent and received: When a user clicks the microphone button and speaks to the avatar, user’s voice audio is sent directly from browser to Azure Speech Services. Short-lived speech authentication tokens (obtained from Sentifyd backend, typically expire within minutes). Service provider: Microsoft Corporation Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | Azure Speech Docs Localization This plugin admin panel is ready for translation and includes compiled translations for several languages. The avatar widget UI now supports multiple languages and the plugin will automatically set the widget’s ui-language attribute based on your WordPress site language (first two letters). If the detected language is one of: English (en), French (fr), German (de), Spanish (es), Arabic (ar), or Chinese (zh), the widget will use that language. Otherwise it will fall back to English. Text Domain: sentifyd-avatar Domain Path: /languages Included admin panel locales: English (US), German, French, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Arabic Widget UI auto-language support: en, fr, de, es, ar, zh (falls back to en when unsupported) Privacy This plugin embeds the Sentifyd avatar web component and stores session-scoped data in the visitor’s browser (sessionStorage). Data is cleared when the tab/window closes. Stored keys (examples; {avatar_id} is your avatar ID): – showChatbot_{avatar_id}: “true”/”false” — remembers open/closed state (UI preference). – authData_{id}: { token, refreshToken, region, avatarId } — short-lived tokens for this session only. – conversationData_{avatarId}: { conversationId, turnId } — maintains session context. No data is written to cookies or localStorage by the widget. Tokens are short-lived and not persisted across sessions.