DFG is the largest national research funding institution in Europe. It serves science and promotes research of the highest quality. With a budget of 3.6 billion euros, it supports and monitors more than 30,000 scientific projects. The fulfillment of these tasks requires time-critical processing of research proposals, preparation of expert reports and communication with scientists. The use of speech recognition serves to accelerate the efficiency of these tasks. After intensive testing, DFG opted for the speech recognition solution from Linguatec.