Cursor on November 6, 2026 added Voice Chat with Agents, a realtime spoken conversation with a coding agent. Users can describe a change out loud, ask what an agent is working on, and hear progress as work moves forward. The feature works in the Agents Window, the IDE, on the web, and in Cursor for iOS.
Starting a call is deliberate and separate from dictation. When the agent is idle and the chat input is empty, a waveform button labeled Start voice chat appears where Send usually sits, next to the microphone button used for dictation. On iOS, users 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.
During a call the voice agent listens, replies, and hands coding work to the agent in the current chat. Users can keep talking while that agent runs: ask what changed in a diff, check on a run, search earlier messages and calls with the same agent, or switch between workers in a Project that has them. The coding agent also speaks for itself with short progress notes while it works and a brief answer when it finishes, so callers usually hear a short update instead of the full written reply.
Voice chat runs on Grok Voice. Cursor says users can pick from many named voices in Voice settings, including Ara, Eve, Leo, Rex and Sal, and can change the voice during a call. With Privacy Mode on, Cursor says voice chat runs with zero data retention. Voice chat is not the older Voice Mode dictation path: dictation still turns speech into text in the chat input, and Cmd+Shift+Space still toggles it in the IDE.
The launch follows Cursor's November 5 Live Apps changelog, which let cloud agents build, host and share apps. Together the two updates push Cursor further into agent-first workflows that mix cloud execution, shareable artifacts and now hands-free steering. Cursor's own changelog is the primary source; same-day secondary trackers mirrored the Grok Voice and multi-surface details. Claims about retention, voice catalog and iOS Siri entry are Cursor's product statements.
Product docs also spell out call limits: a call can hang up after about ten minutes of silence while the agent has no work in progress, and Cursor enforces a daily voice-call limit. Sessions authenticated only with an API key cannot start voice chat; a signed-in account and microphone permission are required. Those operational details matter for teams evaluating the feature beyond the launch headline.