In 2008, the program won the first prize in the category "Most Popular" at the Chatterbox Challenge, a yearly competition between different similar chatbots.4
There was an article about FreeHAL in the Linux Magazine, Issue 97 from December 2008. In the German magazine com!, the program was on the CD/DVD and in the list of the Top-10-Open-Source programs of the month.5
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"About - FreeHAL". freehal.github.io. Retrieved 2022-09-05. https://freehal.github.io/index.html ↩
"The Chatterbox Challenge". 2010-09-24. Archived from the original on 2010-09-24. Retrieved 2022-09-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20100924042534/http://www.daniellechuchran.com/contest_history.html ↩
"The Chatterbox Challenge". 2010-09-24. Archived from the original on 2010-09-24. Retrieved 2023-06-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20100924042534/http://www.daniellechuchran.com/contest_history.html ↩