What differense is have with spk encoder and without? freevc vs freevc-s?

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freevc uses pretrained speaker encoder, i.e., the speaker encoder is trained in advance on large datasets (e.g. voxceleb) with speaker verification task, while freevc-s does not. For their performance difference, please refer to table 1&2 in the paper.