Any reason why dictation should suddenly stop working in Pages?

Been working on Pages today on my Mac. All going along swimmingly using the dictation function.
Then suddenly, it stops!
Haven't got it working since.
Running latest Mavericks, on a three year-old MacBook Pro 17 inch; Pages is the latest edition.
Any ideas?
Otherwise it's back to typing in again!
Cheers!
Mark.

I'm using spoken punctuation.
I think the problem is a combination of a few things perhaps: my MacBook Pro is just over three years old, runs only 8Gb RAM, perhaps struggles with an English accent, and maybe Pages sin't quite the old Pages any more.
I can get it to work for about twenty words max before I hit the beach ball.
Also working out about the same on my 18 month old iPad as well.
Will just work within the limitations.
Thanks for all your help and comments, chaps!

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