Cursor adds real-time voice chat with coding agents
A waveform button starts a two-way voice call with an idle agent, so you can describe a change out loud and hear it talk through progress as it works.
Cursor shipped voice chat with agents on 6 November. When an agent is idle and the chat box is empty, a waveform button next to the dictation microphone starts a real-time call: you talk, the agent answers out loud, and it shares short spoken progress notes while it works rather than a full written reply.
It runs in the Agents Window, the IDE, on the web, and in Cursor for iOS, where you can also say “Hey Siri, call Cursor” to start one, then mute or hang up from the Lock Screen. Voice is powered by Grok Voice, with a choice of five voices, and Privacy Mode gives it zero data retention. This is separate from dictation, which still just turns speech into text in the chat input.
Why it matters: talking to an agent while it works, rather than typing and waiting, changes how you review long-running tasks, you can ask what it’s doing or redirect it mid-task without breaking stride to type. It also signals where coding-agent interfaces are heading: voice as a first-class input alongside chat and the editor itself, not a dictation shortcut bolted on top.