Dictation won't work in pages

Dictation works great in all text boxes. For example I'm dictating this message.
However in pages, I double-click on the function key and it just gives me a beep and start dictation is not available. How can I fix this problem?

Mike and Tom,
My enhanced dictation works fine for me in Pages v5.2.2 and OS X 10.9.4. In System Preferences > Dictation & Speech, I have the iSight icon configured to automatic, and the Shortcut left to the default — Fn Fn. My external iSight camera is switched on.
The only way I can reproduce just a single beep, without the microphone icon appearing, is by not having clicked on the open Pages document window to give it keyboard focus. Once that is done, pressing the dictation shortcut will display the microphone icon, a single beep, and dictation is ready to insert your spoken words into Pages.

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