Sentence:  Having an audience would have allowed a more natural setting for the <WSD>consecutive</WSD>. The choice of individual sessions was dictated by the following considerations: (i) given that the recordings were made on an itinerant basis (sometimes at subjects' homes), it would have proved practically impossible to arrange an audience for every session; (ii) recruiting an audience for the <WSD>consecutives</WSD> recorded at university would have limited the pool of potential subjects without prior knowledge of the speeches; (iii) it would have been inconsistent to record some interpretations before an audience and others in individual sessions. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Consecutive interpretation.