Why does dictation stop working?

worked great and then nothing … .need restart often? no pattern i can figure out….[speakable items is fine] imac2009, osx10.8.5

Thanks for reply….Oh, so their server does go down quite often then? Or I was wondering if they cut me off after heavy usage or something?
Think I would need to upgrade to at least Mavericks to get the enhanced dictation. I did try it. Guess I would do it just to avoid the server problems, if I didn't have to accept all the other operating system changes. Do most think it is a vastly superior dictation to the older version?
But I really dislike some of the oS changes/the look and visibility of it on neighbors computer/iPad, and the new calendars, notes….. I don't suppose there's any possibility of accepting most of the changes in new operating systems, while keeping my old design of calendar , Notes, desktop…?
Really want to move on to Yosemite for the speakable items improvements alone, but I'm also wondering if it's going to give me problems with a 2009 iMac?
Macs are amazing, but I still wish everything was even simpler , Less time-consuming.

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