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!
The books is called the outsiders because they aren’t like the rest of Society. They are the social outcasts of the world. Pony boy is the biggest outsider
Google it and look pictures of each generation of the chrome casts.
A) When a person has a full-prescription-strength pain relief from a physician