Hah! yeah it was programmed to say "Take me to your leader." Actually the chip was designed as a super low-cost speach generation/recognition device for kid's toys. On the sound acquisition side, there was a built in audio amp, ADC, DSP, program ROM. Very light, low power, cheap. The company had some connection to some guy I think at UC Berkeley who took advantage of a few ounces of spare payload in the mission to squeaze it in. Although I didn't have any connection to the space program itself, I was really excited. Even though the mission failed, I'm always happy to reminisce that there's a bit of me on Mars.