US Patent 9826285 Dynamic summaries for media content

Disclosed are various embodiments for providing dynamically generated summaries of media content, such as electronic books, audiobooks, audio series, video content series, and so on. A position in media content is determined based at least in part on input from a user. A summary of a portion of the media content is dynamically generated, where the portion of the media content begins or ends relative to the position. A summary of the portion of the media content is presented to the user via an output device.