Cursor has added voice chat to its coding agents, letting developers talk to the agents building their software instead of typing every instruction. The new feature, announced on Friday, turns a text conversation with an agent into a realtime voice call: describe a change out loud, ask what the agent is working on, and hear spoken updates as the work moves forward. It runs in the Agents Window, the desktop IDE, on the web, and in Cursor for iOS, and it is powered by Grok Voice.
How a call works
Starting a call takes one tap. When the agent is idle and the chat box is empty, a waveform button labelled Start voice chat appears where the Send button usually sits, next to the microphone for dictation. On an iPhone, you can say ‘Hey Siri, call Cursor’ to open a call, and mute or hang up from the Lock Screen.
The conversation does not stop once the agent starts working. You can keep talking while it codes, ask what changed in a diff, check on a run, search earlier messages and calls, or switch between workers in a Project that has them.
The agent talks back too. It shares short progress notes while it works and gives a brief spoken answer when it finishes, so you usually hear a short update instead of the full written reply. The idea is a running conversation, not a dictated transcript: you speak, the agent answers, and the work carries on.
Voice chat runs on Grok Voice. You can pick from several voices in Voice settings, including Ara, Eve, Leo, Rex and Sal. With Privacy Mode on, Cursor says voice chat runs with zero data retention — nothing from the call is kept.
Voice chat is not the same as dictation. Dictation, which earlier releases called Voice Mode, still turns speech into text in the chat input, and Cmd+Shift+Space still toggles it in the IDE. Voice chat is the two-way version: a live conversation in which the agent answers out loud.
Our Read
This is Cursor’s second launch in two days, after Live Apps on Thursday let developers build and share apps from a prompt. The pairing is the story: Cursor is turning the editor into a place where agents do the work and the developer supervises — by voice, from a phone, or from the IDE.
It also tightens Cursor’s tie to Grok. Voice chat runs on Grok Voice, and Grok Bot already makes phone calls for users, so the same voice family now covers both talking to an agent and sending one out to talk for you. Whether spoken supervision is actually faster than reading is still untested — the changelog gives no usage figures.
Why It Matters
Coding agents are moving from text to voice, and the interface matters as much as the model. If developers can supervise agents while walking or away from the keyboard, the agent becomes a colleague you talk to rather than a tool you type at. Cursor, a leading coding agent, is now betting that spoken supervision is the next step.
Background
Cursor has shipped at a fast pace since SpaceX completed its acquisition of Anysphere in August: a bundled subscription with Grok and X Premium in October, Live Apps on Thursday, and now voice chat. The changelog does not say which plans include voice chat, and Cursor has given no pricing or usage limits for the feature.
Source: Cursor changelog
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