Using Siri for Dictation?

Not having grown up with learning to type, I first experimented with Dragon Dictate - at considerable expense and frustration. The annoyed when Dragion became obsolete with OS X and Dragon gave no credit for an upgrade. Siri appears to b quite effective but lacking in its ability to create long documents.,with posting to Pages or Word Has anyone successfully learned to create full size documents and in what formats?

Have you tried the OS own dictation?
System Preferences>Dictation & Speech>Dictation
System Preferences>Accessibility>Dictation
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