You might find that sometimes when launching the Apple's Dictation feature that you simply get the blue microphone icon, a beep, but it doesn't accept your speech. If this is the case for you then here I might have just the solution!
You will need to create a new Shortcut to run so that the temporary glitch gets fixed!
Here is the text for the terminal window:
killall corespeechd
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