There's the Americanist phonetic alphabet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americanist_phonetic_notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americanist_phonetic_notati

There's the Americanist phonetic alphabet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americanist_phonetic_notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americanist_phonetic_notation), which saw widespread use in North and Central America in the early parts of the 20th century. I think it's mostly been replaced by the IPA. For the most part, those funny little phonemic notations that dictionaries come up with are just alternate alphabets, and not intendend to be a standard phonetic alphabet.