Pages substitutions dialog lagging on macOS 15.2

Got to just love this hosting software that red screens your post but posts part of it anyway leading to two entries…

When you are dictating text into Pages, ensure that you have this in Pages Settings > Auto-Correction:

[ ✓ ] Use smart quotes and dashes

Double quotes [ "abc" ↕︎ ]

That is the first double-quote entry on that selection menu. The last entry is curled double quotes, but dictation only produces straight double quotes.

And then when dictating text in Pages, use this syntax (without the angle brackets):

See <open double quote>Spot<close double quote> run circles around Jane<period>

If you want to manually enter curled double quotes:

Left   “  option+[
Right  ”  shift + option + [

Back in 2021, I posted a reply of how to con dictation into entering curled double quotes via Accessibility > Voice Dictation > Commands… panel, but Sequoia would not give me access to that Commands… panel, instead popping this dialog:

Tested: Pages v14.3, Sequoia v15.3 on M4 Mac Mini Pro.

When you are dictating text into Pages, ensure that you have this in Pages Settings > Auto-Correction:

[ ✓ ] Use smart quotes and dashes

Double quotes [ "abc" ↕︎ ]

And then when dictating text in Pages, use this syntax (without the angle brackets):

See <open double quote>Spot<close double quote> run circles around Jane<period>

That will use the quotes that you selected above for your particular language punctuation format.

Tested: Pages v14.3, Sequoia v15.3 on M4 Mac Mini Pro.

I was unable to get Dictation to enter smart quotes when deliberately configuring Pages to use them. There is nothing in its verbal controls that will force it to use smart quotes either. I don't see any user fix for this issue unless you can get the next paragraph to work.

Did you attempt to create a custom command as I pointed out in my 2021 link above, and did you get the same Settings Error as I did? That has to be a bug in v15.3 as I have always been able to access that Commands… panel previously.