Stop dictate from turning off in Word 365

If someone is going to log a ticket with support, I feel it is important to point at that this is a feature originally introduced as an accessibility feature for people who cannot easily use their keyboards.  So far, all the replies I've read seem to be from people using Dictate more-or-less for convenience. That includes me, BTW.

Let's imagine for a second how intensely frustrating this must be for someone who can't press a 3-key shortcut to turn it back on, or continuously click their mouse, or whatever.

Yes, I think this is needed now - can you do this, I wouldn't know how to initiate this?

Has anyone tried shifting this from the Community - where we all seem to be talking to each other about something that is being ignored by Microsoft - to raising a ticket with the Help people?  I need this functionality and I don't mind them fixing things, but I do mind being ignored over a rather important bit of kit.

I have been using dictate feature for a while now. It was finally working and would continue to accept input and type out for long periods of time. 15 to 20 minutes was not a problem. This week, it now stops after one minute. Every single time. I've timed it.

I've been doing some research and interestingly enough Google's speech to text limits audio to one minute. Is Microsoft Word Dictate now using Google's speech to text somehow and it's limited to one minute at a time? This is extremely annoying to have to restart the microphone every minute because it doesn't even show that's it's not listening anymore. It just stops typing at one minute.

I am also experiencing the same issue now that I had a software update. It never shut off before the update and now it doesn't recognize my voice and shuts off. So frustrating!