Hong Kong + Malaysian — HK1 : 577
S1 = Hong Kong male
S2 = Malaysian female
Context: They are talking about S1's work in painting murals, particularly during his visit to Bulgaria.
S1 : and then the communist you know using this huge painting (.) as a propaganda (.) you know that
Intended Words : communist
Heard as : companies
Discussion : One issue might be the vowel in the first syllable of the word. S1 uses [ɑː], as might be expected in American English. However, elsewhere he does have [ɒ], the vowel that would be expected in the first syllable of communist in British English. For example, he has [ɒ] in the first syllable of propaganda, so the occurrence of [ɑː] in the first syllable of communist might have confused S2. In fact, the vowel in this first syllable of communist is similar to the [ʌ] that would be expected in the first syllable of companies.
In addition to issues regarding the vowel in the first syllable of communist, there is no clear [j] at the start of the second syllable, though this is not too surprising as the syllable is unstressed and [j] is not obligatory there; and there is no clear [t] at the end of the word, though again this is not too surprising given that it is at the end of a word final consonant cluster in an unstressed syllable, so omission of this [t] is to be expected.