Cursor Adds Voice Chat for Talking With Coding Agents

Cursor has added voice chat with agents, letting developers talk with their coding agents in a realtime voice call. Users can describe a change out loud, ask what an agent is working on, and hear updates as the work moves forward. Voice chat works in the Agents Window, the IDE, on web, and in Cursor for iOS.

To start a call, wait until the agent is idle and the chat input is empty, then click the waveform button labeled Start voice chat. It sits where Send usually is, next to the microphone button for dictation. On iOS, users can also say “Hey Siri, call Cursor” to start a call with a new agent, then mute or hang up from the Lock Screen using a Live Activity.

The voice agent listens, replies, and hands coding work to the agent in the chat. The conversation can continue while that agent runs. Users can ask what changed in a diff, check on a run, or search earlier messages and calls. The coding agent also shares short progress notes and a brief answer when it finishes, so users often hear a summary instead of the full written reply.

Voice chat runs on Grok Voice. Users can pick from several voices in Voice settings, including Ara, Eve, Leo, Rex, and Sal. With Privacy Mode on, voice chat runs with zero data retention.

Voice chat is separate from dictation, which earlier releases called Voice Mode. Dictation still turns speech into text in the chat input, and Cmd+Shift+Space still toggles it in the IDE.

Why it matters

Voice gives developers a hands-free way to direct agents while they work elsewhere in the codebase. Spoken progress updates may make long agent runs easier to follow. Keeping voice chat distinct from dictation also reduces confusion about which control does what.

What to do

Update Cursor to try voice chat, and start with a short, low-risk task. If your work involves sensitive code, confirm that Privacy Mode is on. Check Cursor’s documentation for details the release notes don’t cover, such as plan or usage limits.