so I don't know if newer releases of JAWS or Window-Eyes could be paused and resumed by using the Control key.
Not the current version of JAWS either, and I think the WindowEyes expert in the office would have mentioned it if available. Yes, pause/resume is much nicer than shut-up only. It warrants mentioning that if you want the Control key to act like shut-up, well that works too. It is not like the unspoken speech goes into some buffer. JAWS exhibits some bizarre speech artifacts, like the pitch changing, when reading even modestly large block of texts. Is that just us, just Windows 2000 (as opposed to XP) or is such a defect pretty common? It happens on all the machines in my office, and people just expect it. It seems odd to me, but people have come to expect weirdness from Windows.
