On November 6, 2026, Cursor announced in its official changelog a realtime voice chat feature for working with agents: no more typing — say the change out loud, ask the agent how far it has got, and it will narrate short progress updates by voice while it works. It is available in the Agents Window, the IDE, on the web, and in Cursor for iOS; update to the latest version to use it. This is Cursor turning voice from an 'input method' into a 'way of talking'.
Starting a call is straightforward. When the agent is idle and the chat input is empty, tap the waveform button to begin — it sits where Send usually is, next to the microphone button for dictation. During the call you can keep asking: what changed in a diff, how a run went, or search this agent's earlier messages and calls, or switch between workers in a project that has them. The agent speaks for itself too: it shares short progress notes while it works and a brief answer when it is done, so you usually hear a summary rather than the full written reply. On iOS you can also say 'Hey Siri, call Cursor' to start a call with a new agent, and mute or hang up from the Lock Screen with a Live Activity — the same idea as Cursor remote control from your phone: the agent runs on the computer while you watch progress from your phone.
Under the hood it runs on Grok Voice, with several voices to pick from in Voice settings, including Ara, Eve, Leo, Rex, and Sal; with Privacy Mode on, voice chat runs with zero data retention. It is worth separating from dictation: dictation only turns speech into text in the chat input, toggled in the IDE with Cmd+Shift+Space, while voice chat is a two-way conversation in which the agent answers out loud and takes on the work itself. It fits moments like checking progress on the move, when your hands are busy, or when you want a quick pass over a diff; it does not fit times when you need to verify long code word by word, or when you would rather not speak aloud in a quiet room.
In the same round of updates, Cursor app building lets you describe what you want and get a deployed app with a database configured and sharing set up; voice chat is the other thread: moving the conversation between people and agents from typing to talking. The feature is already shipping with the update — upgrade Cursor to the latest version to try it. The next thing to watch is how Grok Voice performs in Chinese, including latency: the official changelog says nothing about Chinese-language use, so users in China will need to test for themselves whether narration and understanding keep up.
