Cursor launches Voice Chat with Agents for real-time interaction

On November 6, 2026, Cursor announced the launch of Voice Chat with Agents, a feature that lets users conduct real-time voice calls with AI agents. Instead of typing, developers can describe a change out loud, ask what an agent is currently working on, and hear progress updates as the work moves along.

The feature is available in four surfaces: the Agents Window, the IDE, the web interface, and Cursor for iOS. To start a call, the agent must be idle and the chat input must be empty. Users then tap the waveform button labeled "Start voice chat", which sits in place of the usual Send button and next to the microphone button used for voice dictation.

On iOS, there is an additional shortcut. Saying "Hey Siri, call Cursor" starts a call with a new agent, and the call can be muted or hung up from the Lock Screen using a Live Activity, so control does not require switching back into the app.

Under the hood, the voice interaction runs on Grok Voice, Cursor's voice layer. Cursor also says the feature is available with zero data retention for users who need privacy. And voice does not interrupt the agent loop. The voice agent listens, replies, and hands coding work back to the agent in the chat. While that agent runs, the conversation can continue normally. Users can ask what changed in a diff, check on a run and ask follow-up questions about the code without pausing the work in progress.

With this launch, Cursor moves voice input beyond dictation and into agentic coding. The hands stay on the keyboard, but the conversation around the task can happen aloud.