Guide
Dictating in Cursor
Prompting an AI editor is writing paragraphs, not code. That is the part worth speaking rather than typing.
The short answer
Voz types at your cursor, so it works in Cursor the same way it works anywhere else: hold the hotkey, speak, release.
There is no plugin and no integration to configure. macOS delivers the text to whatever has focus, and Cursor receives it as ordinary typing.
Setting it up
- Install Voz and grant microphone and accessibility permission when macOS asks. Accessibility is what allows text to be inserted at the cursor.
- Open Cursor and put the cursor where you want the words.
- Hold your push-to-talk key, speak, and release. The text appears.
- If you want a different key, change it in Settings ▸ Hotkey.
Why it fits Cursor
The prompt box is where an AI editor actually consumes English, and English is faster spoken than typed — most people talk at around 150 words a minute and type at closer to 60. Long, specific prompts get better results than short ones, and dictation makes long prompts cheap to produce.
It also keeps your hands on the problem. Describing what you want while looking at the code is a different motion from stopping to type a paragraph.
Worth knowing
- Code itself is still better typed. Dictation is for prose: prompts, commit messages, comments, PR descriptions.
- Add project-specific terms to custom vocabulary so library and service names come out spelled correctly.
- Speak punctuation if you want it exactly — "comma", "period", "new line".
All of this runs on your Mac. Nothing you dictate is uploaded, which matters more than usual when what you are dictating is unreleased work.