Cursor adds realtime voice calls with coding agents, powered by Grok Voice

Cursor now supports realtime voice calls with its agents. According to the company's November 6, 2026 changelog, you can describe a change out loud, ask what an agent is working on, and hear updates as the work moves forward. Voice chat is available in the Agents Window, the IDE, on web, and in Cursor for iOS.

How to start a call

When the agent is idle and the chat input is empty, a waveform button labeled "Start voice chat" appears where the Send button usually sits. It is next to the microphone button used for dictation.

On iOS, you can also say "Hey Siri, call Cursor" to start a call with a new agent. A Live Activity lets you mute or hang up from the Lock Screen.

Talking while the agent works

The voice agent listens, replies, and hands coding work to the agent in your chat. The conversation can continue while that agent runs. During a run you can:

• Ask what changed in a diff
• Check on a run
• Search earlier messages and calls with this agent
• Switch between workers in a Project that has them

The coding agent also speaks for itself. It shares short progress notes while it works and a brief answer when it finishes, so you usually hear a short update instead of the full written reply.

Grok Voice and privacy

Voice chat runs on Grok Voice. Voice settings offer many voices, including Ara, Eve, Leo, Rex, and Sal. With Privacy Mode on, voice chat runs with zero data retention.

Voice chat versus dictation

Voice chat is separate from dictation, which earlier Cursor releases called Voice Mode. Dictation still turns speech into text in the chat input, and Cmd+Shift+Space still toggles it in the IDE. Voice chat is a two-way conversation in which the agent answers out loud.

Users need to update Cursor to access voice chat. Cursor points to its docs for more detail.

What this means

This release adds a spoken channel to agent workflows, not only a speech-to-text input. Because the coding agent speaks short progress notes and brief completion summaries, a user can follow a run without reading the full written output. The ability to query a diff or a run by voice means the call is tied to the work in progress, not just to starting tasks.

The iOS integration (Siri invocation and Lock Screen controls) extends this to calls started away from the editor. The Privacy Mode zero-data-retention commitment applies to voice chat, which matters for teams that already rely on that setting. Cursor's renaming of the earlier Voice Mode to dictation draws a clear line between the two features, so existing dictation shortcuts keep working unchanged.