To most of my research so far, it is the visual of speech sounds. When you look through a dictionary, you'll usually see these things under the main word you're looking for.
For example, you take a word like "Seahorse". You have the word type, and below the word type, you see some fancy looking text.
I will bold this mini dictionary bit for you to show you what we're focusing on.
Seahorse
Noun
/ˈsēhôrs/
The text in bold here is what you're looking for when you want to find the "Phonetic Transcription." Hope this helps!
It has it's pros and cons but now I'm starting to see the bs with these bots commenting links it Pi/ss me off so annoying
conflict is D
climax is A
rising action is E I think
exposition is C I think
falling action/ resolution is B I think
I did my best, they might not be all right but I tried I hope it helped
3 pounds=1.5 apples but if you have to round round down because you don't have enough pounds for 2 whole apples